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What is this fruit?
« on: June 17, 2022, 05:24:14 PM »
What is this fruit? Saw at mounts botanical garden WPB






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Re: What is this fruit?
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2022, 03:15:19 PM »
My first thought was peanut butter fruit, Bunchosia argentea, but the leaves and stems are not right for that fruit. The leaves and stems look more like imbe, Garcinia livingstonei, but the fruits seem redder, more elongated, and are coming off the stem differently than I would expect from an imbe.

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Re: What is this fruit?
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2022, 07:21:16 PM »
Looking at  the flowers and leaves, it looks like something from the Apocynaceae family, but not a clue on which species.
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Re: What is this fruit?
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2022, 09:21:41 PM »
It might be natal plum?

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Re: What is this fruit?
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2022, 09:57:15 PM »
I'd tend to agree with skhan that it looks like Natal Plum.

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Re: What is this fruit?
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2022, 10:01:07 PM »
The leaves are wrong for a natal plum, though the closely related Carissa carandas could be a possibility. I am not familiar enough with it to be sure.

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Re: What is this fruit?
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2022, 10:42:47 PM »
I've never seen natal plum fruit in clusters like that. My friend has a big c carandas. Is it thorny? Did you try inaturalist or and app of that sort?

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Re: What is this fruit?
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2022, 10:48:39 PM »
That is an ochrosia. It is related to natal plum but is toxic.

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Re: What is this fruit?
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2022, 01:29:27 AM »
That is an ochrosia. It is related to natal plum but is toxic.

A shame, all that fruit and none of it can be eaten.