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awesome! thanks for the review

sorry for the late response,

Thanks everyone! i will look into san isidro and see if we can fit it inI INaturalist has been pretty helpfull for getting a general idea of the plant species in CR.

For looking for the plinia costarricense you might look on Facebook for a guy named Roy Carballo. Roy has been to the tree you want to see and lives in San Ramon.
Suerte!

i will look on facebook soon, thanks for the tip!

Take some fotos of the surf being ridden and post them in your trip report. And fruit, take fotos of all of the fruit!

for sure!

i will update this thread with follow ups and questions as they come, thanks for the help

Glad i could help! Good luck with it!

Bellamy has some more seeds available rn at 10$ if anyone wants to pick them up for cheaper

Was gonna grab some but Exoteninsel claims the germination rate of seeds is pretty low (although they have a vested interest since they were selling plants): https://www.exoteninsel.com/Red-Sapote-maybe-Timonius-minahassae-1-small-potted-plant-1-kleine-getopfte-Pflanze/EI10945

i bought a few, hope they were wrong…

OP, zooming in close to the picture you showed, the faded ink really looks like it says "Blue Guaquiea". The plant itself looks pretty close to one, too!

that is the common name for m. caerulescens, I think that it Is very likely that

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Quote from: Sir Graftalot on December 29, 2024, 10:53:09 AM

Bought some seeds from Bellamy over the summer. Planted them in small pots, didn't pay much attention to them until just now. Looks like a batch has sprouted, but I was too lazy to note the plant's name on the cup, simply taped the label that came with the seeds to the container. Unfortunate, it's all faded. Can anyone tell what this is?

it looks a lot like my myrciaria caerulescens seedling. i will post a picture later

Thanks you. The name does sound familiar. Here's an updated picture of the plant:

the leaves on mine haven't fully developed, it is still really tiny but I will let you know when they do

My Eugenia blastantha and starfruit are both beautiful, the loquats and eugenia aff florida are also quite pretty.

Good luck with platonia and brazil nut XD.

The fruits i want to grow the most are jaboticaba, rollinia, Eugenia campininha, white sapote and maybe lychee

The fruits i want to TRY the most are rollinia, marang and pedalai, jaboticaba, most of the common eugenias, mammea americana, and abiu (if anyone has any to spare lemme know )

Wikipedia only seems to have any significant information on common fruits. 

Has anyone tried updating wikipedia lately?  I haven't tried in a decade or more.  I wonder if anonymous updates for common or obscure fruit are actually kept or auto-reverted.  One of the wikipedia requirements is citing reputable published data sources, but most of the obscure stuff we talk about is effectively heresay.  I don't think they will let you reference forum posts to prove something.   For obscure things there seems to be little enforcement of standards, so it might be possible to add useful information even if it doesn't meet the guidelines and have it stick.

Still, if you can write information on wikipedia.org that meets their reqs, that is probably best way to help everyone.

I've noticed the same thing, there just isn't a large reservoir of information available at the moment, the closest thing is UsefullTropicalPlants but they have VERY limited information.
 i think that the website would gain traction, especially if it could be used as a field guide

i have been curious about this for some time, it feels like a ghost that haunts the forum, what happened? it seems like an amazing resource with amazing potential, If I knew more about tech-y stuff I would help myself (might have to learn lol). it seems that no one had the time to finish/keep the project running, but my curiosity remains.

Soil looking pretty dry. If you have them indoors, heated, the humidity is probably critically low for them when they're used to FL RH%

thanks! i think the humidity is around 60% but I will check when I get home

I have two plants that are a little worse for the wear, and i dont know what to do about it.

My Eugenia burkartiana has been doing poorly, i got it on auction from anderson tropicals, it came in good shape. The leaves started browning and falling off, i thought it was sunburn so i moved it a little bit away. But the leaves are still shriveling, what do i do??



(Two more leaves fell as i brought it out to take the pictures )

Next is my fruta do misterio, i got it and it looked good for about a week then the leaves lost color and THEN shrivled, but didnt always fall. There were black spots before the shriviling so i hit it with fungicide. By that point there were only 2 green leaves left, the spots were gone but there was no growth. I noticed today that the spots are back and when i touched them, the last leaves fell 







The last two leaves that just fell



Please help! I paid a pretty penny for these and they are some of my oldest plants and i dont want to lose them

maybe one of those posts would be a good candidate for a pin?

like the actual cocoa fruit pod?