Brazilian Plantarum Botanical Garden

[nofspeppers]

Stumbled onto this recent (Jan 2) video tour and thought you all might like to see some large Plinias, Eugenias and other trees.

I didn't know that Plinia Nana (@7:14) was a "free stone" jabo or that it was even a possibility. Is anyone trying to breed this characteristic into new hybrids?

Also fun to see larger trees that I have small seedlings of like the E. Minutifolia (@17:49), E. Patrisii (@18:55) and E. Dysenterica (@22:05)

Youtube now has an auto-translate for audio which I thought was a bit clunky so I just turned on subtitles and left it in Portuguese. Very cool to see how auto-translation has really broken down the barrier to seeing and understanding more Brazilian made content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFwjZfzz4BE
Youtube description: The video was recorded at the Plantarum Botanical Garden, in Nova Odessa, together with the Agricultural and Botanical Engineer Harri Lorenzi.

Here's a list of trees they show in the video:
Campomanesia xanthocarpa – Yellow Guabiroba
Campomanesia lineatifolia – Amazonian Guabiroba
Campomanesia lorenziana - Giant Super Guabiroba
Campomanesia pubescens – Gabiroba do Campo
Campomanesia adamantium - Smooth Guabiroba
Plinia Nana - Dwarf Jabuticaba
Plinia 829-TBF
Plinia oblongata – Ponhema
Guapurium caipirinha
Plinia spirito-santensis
Eugenia sulcata - Beach Surinam cherry
Eugenia luschnathiana Bahia cherry
Eugenia involucrata – Rio Grande cherry
Eugenia involucrata cultivar calycina
Eugenia minutifolia - Anestor Mezzomo
Eugenia patrisii
Eugenia pitanga - Cerrado Surinam cherry
Eugenia dysenterica
Annona crassiflora
annona salzmannii
annona spinescens

[Jaboticaba45]

Yes plinia nana is freestone
as well as plinia sp. diamantina

Diamantina is one of my families favorite jabos because of the freestone seed
But yeah, I think the only guy who is fruiting them in the USA is Luiz right now

Also, everyone's nanas always die lol
people get them to flower and then they die

So it would be great to hybridize, but gonna be a while until we can figure out growing them in the USA...


There is a seedless jaboticaba, but I can't say anything else or you may not see me again

[nofspeppers]

Yes plinia nana is freestone
as well as plinia sp. diamantina

Diamantina is one of my families favorite jabos because of the freestone seed
But yeah, I think the only guy who is fruiting them in the USA is Luiz right now

Also, everyone's nanas always die lol
people get them to flower and then they die

So it would be great to hybridize, but gonna be a while until we can figure out growing them in the USA...


There is a seedless jaboticaba, but I can't say anything else or you may not see me again

lol thanks for the info Ryan, good stuff to know!