The Tropical Fruit Forum
Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: tru on November 23, 2022, 08:08:30 AM
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Whenever you go to look at your trees, which one do you catch yourself staring at the longest? Which one of your fruit trees would you grow for the foliage alone, even if you don't necessarily enjoy the fruit?
I really like the look of lychee trees I can't lie, and white sapote has cool branching patterns. It's fun to watch the starfruit leaves open and close throughout the day too
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Sapodilla and soursop in Florida, and of course coconut palms. Pomegranate, olive, walnut, and most citrus in California. Apple and pear trees in other states. Pecan trees in Texas.
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jabos, carambola, caimito
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African Sausage Tree- its just a cool looking tree. Or Olive for the same reason
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Peaches and cherry trees.
Walnut trees, if you extend it to nuts.
Flying Dragon.
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For me it’s bananas although they are not a “tree”. I enjoy the leaves rustling in the wind. Seeing the next new leaf pop and which leaves may have been through some heavy storms. They make my yard tropical in a subtropical homestead.
Contorted mulberry is up there too for the winter.
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Nagami Kumquat has great foliage & fruit, especially when grown in container it says very compact
Starfruit flowers are really nice looking
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There's a 15' Lychee tree in my neighborhood that not only has produced an abundance of beautiful fruits,
but is also an almost perfect umbrella shaped canopy with great looking foliage.
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My favorite currently is olosapo
Caimito is really nice too
Edit: also most garcinias
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Breadfruit/Bread Nut trees.
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Lychee, pummelo, loquat.
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Breadfruit, cacao, mangosteen, olosapo, tropical almond, lychee and guava
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Clove tree.
Star Apple, with the gold leaf undersides.
Quince for its beautiful trunk and branches, matched by some tropical Ficus and Alectyron.
Even more so Strangler Fig with its complex mesh of entwining roots. Like H.R. Tiger artwork from the Alien films.
Syzygiums for foliage and new growth flush tips.
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Cacao varieties with brightly colored fruit pods.
Herrania
Miracle fruit
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With my limited collection of fruit trees, my takes are...
- Chineese jujube
- peach, nectarine, they look so tropical with their descending leaves.
- carambolla
- coffee
- dragon fruit
- Cherimoya, i love the big dark green leaves, the fruit also looks unique
- Loquat , a nice evergreen with big leaves
- Asimina triloba , probably my favorite looking fruit tree.
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Scarlet beauty Plum
Cherry of rio grande
Ponkan mandarin
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Breadfruit, mangosteen, Langsat.
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I think persimmons are quite ornamental especially during fall. You get these orangey red beautiful leaves. Sometimes, you see these older trees with the hachiya astringent varieties where the animals don't touch the hanging fruit and they even look more attractive.
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Alma is very ornamental, I have a 15ft tree it has not fruited yet but it looks amazing.
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Just to chime in . . .
I find that I'm quite partial to how my Biribá (Rollinia deliciosa aka Annona mucosa) looks, very tropical, as well as my several ilamas (Annona macroprophyllata). I find them graceful.
Also my white sapote (Casimiroa edulis) is nice to look at with its palmately compound leaves. Hoping that mine will give me some fruit soon.
Paul M.
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Seems there is a wide range of what we consider "ornamental" and beautiful, which is itself beautiful.
How plants are grouped together and their background and landscaping all make a difference. Time of year as and conditions as well.
Re rollinia, it is a beautiful tree that can be trimmed to create a nice umbrella canopy. It is pleasant and cool underneath.
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My contorted mulberry is really unusual. This year it finally took off and put out allot of new growth.
Every Winter it loses all its leaves and the contorted branching is exposed.
In the Spring when it flushes it has huge green leaves and looks healthy
After Hurricane Ian this year allot of the branches were damaged and I pruned
the tree and set up about 10 to root. So far 90% are pushing growth.
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shoutout for Myrcianthes fragrans and Myrcianthes pungens- both might do well outside depending where you are in tx
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My contorted mulberry is really unusual. This year it finally took off and put out allot of new growth.
Every Winter it loses all its leaves and the contorted branching is exposed.
In the Spring when it flushes it has huge green leaves and looks healthy
After Hurricane Ian this year allot of the branches were damaged and I pruned
the tree and set up about 10 to root. So far 90% are pushing growth.
Our contorted never produced fruit. Does yours fruit?
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Mango, love red flushes. Durian, beautiful tree, nice flowers, interesting fruit.
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also Rheedia aristata
(https://i.postimg.cc/K4HqmjHQ/Screen-Shot-2022-11-30-at-10-58-59-AM.png) (https://postimg.cc/K4HqmjHQ)
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how old is that aristata/ is that grafted? Beautiful, i have a baby that is finally working on its 3rd set of leaves after 4 or so months lmao
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I bought it in 2020 from Ertdude RIP
it is not grafted
these are great plants that are pretty cold tolerant and can handle/enjoy alkaline and salty soils-
I have a few more seedlings as well that are very slow growers
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Eugenias and jaboticabas, basically collected more for their looks.
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Mountain apple, breadfruit/breadnut, Garcinias
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yeah I've fallen in love with the way breadfruit looks after this. Guess I never looked into it at first because of the name ? idk. but wow. Probably my favorite from the whole thread tbh
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yeah I've fallen in love with the way breadfruit looks after this. Guess I never looked into it at first because of the name ? idk. but wow. Probably my favorite from the whole thread tbh
Well tru, I'd love to grow breadfruit in 9b but we're too cold for it here. Beautiful, ornamental, distinctive-looking tree with interesting-looking fruit. Love the tree's large palmate leaves.
Only had it once in Belize many years ago. The landlady there where we were staying in San Ignacio peeled it, ti cored it, the cut it into wedges and fried it. Delicious but indistinguishable from french fried potato, but that was a good thing.
Someday would like to try breadfruit prepared in other ways but I have never seen this fruit for sale in any central Florida markets.
Cheers!
Paul M.
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We usually roast breadfruit on a fire. Tastes great. I think a lot of the Artocarpus species are quite beautiful. Some species have even larger leaves than breadfruit/breadnut.
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I believe there was someone on here with a breadfruit cold tolerance breeding project