The Tropical Fruit Forum

About 3 months back I found this Yam growing on a tree in my farm. It looks as if I had planted the tuber two or three years back and had not noticed the vine.



The vine is different in that, it has 6 ridges and not 4 as compared to other Dioscoreas I have, and there are small thorns in the ridges.
Last week when I checked on the vine it had dried up and the seed tubers were falling down. So yesterday I decided to dig up the tuber. Initially the tuber appeared the thickness of a thumb but as I went deeper it became thicker, but it is so tender that the slightest pressure on the soil would break the tuber, as you will see from the no. of pieces! Finally after a depth of about two and a half feet, the tuber had grown into the root of the tree and I had to abandon my attempt.

After boiling the tuber, when I tasted it I got a surprise! It is the tastiest Yam I have eaten! It is very creamy and unbelievably 'White' !!

Bump.

There are  a few Cecropia trees in the San Francisco Botanical Garden. There were fruits when I visited two years back.

The fruits are still only 4 inches long, not yet anywhere near ripening. I check them every day. 2weeks ago there was another round of flowers, I tried hand pollinating about 5 flowers, but all of them dropped after a week. But the next day another round of flowers opened, and even though I did not pollinate, today I found one fruit may have set! I will know for sure after a week or two.

Thanks, Mike T and Cop.

It looks as if one plant has only female flowers.<br /><br />
While the other plant has only male flowers, in hundreds.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Hundreds of flowers opened and were shed yesterday night.
Compared to the male, my female plant has few flowers. May be because my plant is not so healthy. Today I have pollinated 5 flowers. Will know in a few days. It looks as if the flowers are not typical of other Annona flowers, to my inexperienced eye.

Thanks, everyone. Will definitely post updates.

The jabos are about 7 feet tall.

Great! What rooting medium did you use?

Are there any Loquat varieties that do not require chill hours? I am asking this because, I had planted some loquat seedlings some six or seven years ago, and on learning that they need chill hours, neglected them. But suddenly last week, I found fruits on one of the trees. They were almost ripe, but the bats beat me , so that I could get only three fruits. They are small, the size of a kumquat, but sweet with slight sourness.

Thank you, Peter.

Hello Andre, Do you still have seeds. I tried yr Whatsapp no. but not seeing you on Whatsapp. Do you have an email id.?