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mamey sapote(pouteria)=fresh seeds germinate with no problems in anything, no problem.
if the seeds are shipped then you can crack the harder shell open without destroying the seeds. if doesn't smell good
try with some fungicide.

mamey americana L=just put in larger pots with garden soil and forget.

got a seed from shilotech back in may. Herrania umbratica

Yes!  I want one too... along with a Malpighia yucatanaea.

We can group order a tree from Mexico and someone plants it in USA and later sends seeds/cuttings to the rest of the buyers. That person gets to keep the plant.

As for M.Yucatanea i have a seedling from tradewinds.

tart/bitter-sweet or wild pitanga if that makes any sense. Edibility level is unknown, not much is known about this plant as i'm the only one that grows it and eats it but nothing bad happened to me for far

Probably the sun is too harsh/too cold/air too dry.

Carambola is literally UNKILLABLE over here. You can remove an established tree but it will come back forever.

Looking for aechmea magdalanae.
Aracacha xanthorhyza
Pachyrhzus ahipa

the one i got for you is still alive after many months but no one got a permit so there it is. I will up pot it soon.

 Some pictures requested by a friend, fellow annona collector and other friends who started this adventure of collecting annonas in an effort to try to collect save some species from extinction. So many thanks to Saltman,JoeP450,Tropical Fruit Bonsai,mikesid and others
who read my rants and such as we are investigating documentation and looking for seeds and plants for annonas from the caribbean region.
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First things first this is the annona found in "Barreras" province of Azua...the seedling has shown some good progress.
Found and given to me in a trip when searching for a.dumetorum
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What we have here is the controversial annona bought from the JBN(national botanical park) of santo domingo...which are supposed to be a.dumetorum as well but show a phenotype with long and thin leaves that made some people think it's actually another species. So we are still trying to find out...


annona "Barreras" compared to JBN "long leaf" annona.

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My annona Urbaniana plants.


annona Barreras compared to a.urbaniana
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all of the 3 endemic rare annonas collected so far, left urbaniana, center "Barreras" and right JBN.
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annona collection


soursop plants


golden soursop from seedtalk



uvaria lancifolia


cherimoya


custard apple=a.reticulata


a.mucosa or the so previously called rollinia mucosa "candongo" vs rollinia deliciosa "biriba"


sugar apples, mostly from achetadomestica


junglesop


air layered soursop


our soursop plant (horribly pruned again)


sugar apple volunteer not doing well.


a.deceptrix from Fruit Lovers


a.sylvatica from Hapajoe


one of my Ilamas


a.primigenia from tradewinds


porcelia nitidifolia(peru) from farmwell


a.montana seedlings

Eugenias and jaboticabas, basically collected more for their looks.

Thanks i hope you guys are doing good as well as everyone else in this forum.

Later let us know the taste.

ok seems i found some old pictures of these from 2014
they were never fertilized so the leaves look a bit nutrient deficient.

hi guys, what do you think this is?










fruit about 1 1/4 inch diameter