The Tropical Fruit Forum

Just now i found out that i won. The last three days i have been without a laptop due to the adapter malfunctioning.

Kudos to Jabo45 and HapaJoe for making this forum more fun with competitions like these.

I have run comps myself on another forum and hope to do the same here maybe next year. I aint goin back to school tho. Unless it's the school of hard knocks.

This will put a spring in my step for the last month of winter for sure. 

I had a bunch of these last year from them.

The red is so bright.

No other mamey Ive had comes close to that red.

Just for clarification, are you talking about Excalibur or Vidal?

Thanks Squam

I was expecting it to be darker than that. From memory people describe it as deep red or blood red.

Interestingly there was a person on the Houz forum named Lisa (GCmastiffs) who uploaded a photo of mamey sapote that had extremely red pulp. She purchased it from Excalibur, lost the tag, and was then told that she had Pantin. But Pantin does not have red pulp. So I thought she had Excalibur, but the fruit shape doesn't seem narrow enough for that cultivar.

Quote from: Mango Stein on February 06, 2023, 10:46:16 AM

The cultivar Pumpkin Pie does not exist... it is (Dwarf) Parrita. Hopefully people will stop adding to this confusion and causing people duplicates. It's another dumb marketing gimmick that who knows who came up with... maybe even Zill Plantas but if it was them they have now removed it from their website. Every Pouteria sapota I have ever tasted resembles pumpkin pie...

Not going to happen at this point.

Challenge accepted

February 10, 4:15 pm

You list Myrciaria aff. tenella seeds in both a black and orange form. Isn't that cambui (Myrciaria cuspidata)?

I really enjoy this resource.

http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000278917#bibliography

https://www.nybg.org/science-project/world-flora-online/

It says that it is a Plinia.

Stirring the pot.

What are you stirring? You are just regurgitating the same mistake using the same outdated source but on a different database. The Bibliography you linked to even says Stadnik, A., Flora Do Brasil, which I already pointed out is outdated. Half the time FdB doesn't even work. Sorry but Brazil is almost a third world country.

I have been communicating with Aline Stadnik over the last few years and she confirmed to me in private communication just yesterday that it is a Eugenia. She is the leading scientist on Brazilian Plinias and Eugenias, not to mention the very paper used in the bibliography for P. martinellii. You don't have to believe me but time will tell.

Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia = Red Bopple Nut
Davidsonia johnsonii = Smooth Davidson Plum

Two species originally from Australia, possibly still confined to the continent.

Quote from: lebmung on May 28, 2021, 04:55:44 PM

The tree was undercover and heated probably with a heating cable that means it had a microclimate, then it should survive. To be truly cold hardy should be expose directly to that temperature.

Spent 45 minutes on the phone with the vendor that has been working with this 40 year old tree in S. Austin.  It took days of below 12F temps (11C) and below.  There was some die back.    Really an incredible story including his technique of getting 50% rooting takes  of cuttings.  Parent tree is 35' tall with a 4' girth trunk.  Says the fruit is very rich.   

Just for the record, 12 Fahrenheit is actually -11 Celsius

It is P. caerulea. Got it's name because flower has blue ring. Very common in Southern Europe. One of the most cold hardy Passifloras. Often used as a rootstock for P. edulis. Some don't taste that bad, having a bit of sweetness. Can easily be opened with fingers.

https://www.inrae.fr/actualites/diffusion-du-materiel-vegetal
Inventory/catalogue: https://www.inrae.fr/sites/default/files/dt-r-34-catalogue_public_des_varietes_1.pdf

Could be Myrciaria glomerata... common name Red Cabeludinha