The Tropical Fruit Forum

congrats, so far mine taste a lot like grapefruit, im surprised this wasn’t documented or photographed in Brazil before I fruited mine and discovered the cross at my farm by chance.

further surprising nobody had this cross in USA either

Lara trees some of the best out there.

this video I made concerning Plinia and Myrciaria should be applicable

https://youtu.be/9iyOjbODMTQ?si=PFNcXYte33BIfQvd

i think this has something to do with what I'm trying to discuss in this thread, and why the shape, or lack thereof, is important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapiche_emerald

Adam, Haven’t you fruited Coronata restinga?

fruit got stolen first crop, just a dozen, this year chances good

Time for a reality check Mr Saffran.

 

https://youtu.be/4EihE9a_mEE?si=2DbR_P9I_F-C2NQx

How about melons?



This is a pretty interesting article: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparisons-between-cross-sectional-tissue-patterns-in-mature-cucurbit-family-fruits-and_fig8_221824700

i see the same thing with citrus and pomegranate, the segments inside arranged in such a way.

I suppose I may have to word my initial question differently,

I'm looking for the star shape, that is hexagonal.  Hexagram it would be.

This i have never seen when cutting through the core of fruits that have multiple sides...like pitanga, caramobla, pitangatuba, etc..

https://www.rarepalmseeds.com/image/cache/data/b/baccaurea-angulata-3_0_1_800x1600_38f67.jpg

looking again, it doesn’t have the hexagon arrangement shape!  the three lobes in the middle make it off!

Baccaurea angulata.  The entire fruit has six sides, but not the actual flesh.

seems like the closest thing Ive seen, kind of like a yes but no, great find, maybe there’s more out there or something that fits the arrangement Im thinking about…

this one i would say is debatable but has six sided arrangement!! rare

The prevalence of the Fibonacci sequence in nature might have something to do with it not really occuring

exactly, but this has further implications when studied on a molecular level.  As to the mechanism and flow of energy as the fruit is conceived.

basically the same reason we don’t see cats, dogs and pigs, or any other animal born with six legs that is mammalian

You could grow watermelon in a form

the point i'm trying to make is that it doesn't occur naturally (I believe), and there's a deeper reason, involving the genesis of the fruit at conception.  On a cellular level or even lower size particles.

I'm just curious if this is true (no natural hexagon fruit), or if this is just my observation.

And if it's true, what are the implications?

Has any other botanist, pomologist, or plant scientist pondered this question in an abstract? Or written about it?

How about a 6-sided (??) dragon fruit.

thanks for posting.

I don't think that would qualify, the arrangement or structure of the fruit is not hexagonal.  The clip art pic may not even be accurate as to how they'd appear when cut, but given the multiple appendages (leaflet type structures) on the outside of the fruit, it wouldn't be fair to only take the cross section of a part that meets the standards, while the rest of the fruit doesn't.

thanks everyone for all the kind words!

One more note I'd like to make about the origins of the "Anomaly" variety.

It is by no means a seedling of the "Red" Jabuticaba.

It originates from an unidentified tree that was grown at Gene Joyners place in West Palm Beach, Unbelievable Acres.

The mother tree did not show the same precocious habit, or intense flowering habit as the seedling "Anomaly".

Even of the 3 seedlings I planted from Gene's tree to originally obtain the Anomaly, there was only 1 of three that fruited so early, the others were not precocious at all.

The seedling is a chance mutation, from an unidentified tree which was over 20yrs old I assume, growing at Unbelievable Acres, this was back in 2012. 

Since then I have heard the tree may be gone, but I'm not sure what happened to his collection after his recent passing...I'm sad I never got a chance to visit...I tried, but I remember you had to schedule an appointment and it was a cumbersome process...Now in my later years, I appreciate the way he ran his business with this process, to weed out the annoying visitors I assume, very smart.

Any how, it's troubling to see the AI models providing false information about my business and my accomplishments.  With possible court proceedings coming up in the next year to asses the valuation of my business, I feel like it's important for me to clearly document and explain all that I've contributed.