The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hey everyone, I was very surprised to learn that loquats contain a sedative that will make you very sleepy if you eat too many!
Does anyone else have some cool examples/side effects of the chemistry in fruit?

Here are some others I've thought of:
- Grapefruit affecting medication (it blocks a super important digestive enzyme)
- Starfruit and Caramboxin
- Annonas and Acetogenins
- Garcinias are pretty famous for making that weight-loss drug that caused liver failure

Any other interesting ones?

Going to be in michoacan, more specifically patzcuaro for maybe even the whole month of may; Anyone have some suggestions on things near by?

Hey everyone; the idea of rootstocks were unknown to me before I got into this world but are very interesting to me. Some ones that I've heard about while browsing the forums so far include yangmei on wax myrtle, loquat on quince, pomegranate on crepe myrtle, all the types of stonefruits, citrus, .. what are some interesting grafting options for rootstock plants that are a bit easier to come by, bonus points if its cold adapted

So with other plants in the garden, if they grow too lanky and fall over you can 'bury' the stem and they'll root higher up giving the plant a lot more support; but I've never heard of anyone doing this with fruit trees. I have an achacha that is starting to fall over and want to just add 2 inches of soil but I don't know my gut says no

Does anyone know if there is a more scientific name of what I'm describing?

everyone has their favorite genus (which btw: mine is passiflora!) but recently I've become very interested with theobroma, and noticed how small of a genus it is. There's only 20 known species of theobroma; anyone have some special ones growing in their collection?

Really enjoy taste reports too, thanks!

Dallas is quite the anomaly when it comes to temperatures, where we very typically see 105F high summers and 10F low winters. Average 65% RH throughout the year with very long growing seasons

I have a couple acres that have been used to grow garlic and wheat for 4-5 years, but I want to transform them into a proper slice of the tropics or atleast as much as I can get away with. Soil is clay but very broken down from the bulb growing. Zone 8b but it feels like we push closer to zone 9 each year ;(. Planning on protecting for winter spells but there are times where temperature can stay below 25F for 3-4 days at a time

Here's my plans so far:
- Different types of passionfruit that I'm going to grow along a heated building, hopefully that is enough for large dieback every year instead of full death
- loquat
- jelly palm
- feijoa
- white sapote
- maybe jabo?

Also thinking the typical citrus, nectarine, peach; maybe plum maybe apple, but idk. I want something really tropical to scratch the itch

If there's anyone with a lot of palm fruit or cactus knowledge! PLEASE! I'd love to add fruits like that to the collection as well
Thanks for your time

Stem below cotyledons rotted inside the seed, but healthy rootmass that has continued to grow for a while. Just slip potted it into a 5gal in hopes it gets the least stress as possible.

What do you think the odds are that it'll make a new shoot/sucker eventually? The stem is vibrantly green a week later.. call me crazy but I'm hopeful  (if you call 5% hopeful)



Anyone know if certain species have a better chance than other ones at extreme stress like this?

Planted a seed from shiloh (thanks shiloh!) and while that is doing fine, this other plant popped up. I'm not sure if this is a weed from texas, a weed from hawaii, or a type of fruit that I don't recognize

It looks vine-y, I went on a walk and tried to match it to plants around me in case my soil got contaminated somehow but I figure I'd see at least some type of weed in other pots if that was the case, but it's only this one particularly

Could just be a one-off thing too, really have no idea; any help greatly appreciated!

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I know I shared this earlier here but in case it gets buried, there's a bunch of new things that weren't there yesterday
Thanks to everyone that came together for this again! Hope this is useful

edit: old map is currently showing, updated map tab should be shown within ~10 minutes hopefully. PowerBI servers push independent from when I do so I'm at the will of whenever they decide to update it

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Hi, I'm looking for some rarer passiflora; have 2 species in mind but really I'm open to anything

Does anyone have these or know where to find them by chance?

andina has these beautiful colorings that I don't see on most passiflora,
and discophora has this unique habit of creating 'sticky pads' with its tendrils, then wrapping the tendrils around themselves until it is taut.

Thanks so much!

Hi, looking for bulk peach preferably as well as other stonefruit plugs, drop your price or PM please