The Tropical Fruit Forum

My 13 yo male has had many thousands of flowers......and individual clusters can have 50. It produced one stray female flower once and I have checked it thoroughly. For about 5 or 6 years my 2 bisex Lucs have produced many thousands of flowers and the  ratio seems frozen at around 5% female flowers. The 3 mature female trees I know including mine have only produced female flowers.   

Ok there are around 20 species in the genus and they are related to calamus, unsurprisingly. The 2 best edible species are Salacca zalacca which come in 2 forms each with around 20 varieties, that is bali form amboina which is a small mono with good fruit. Gula Pasir from the eastern highlands are amongst the best. Salacca zalacca var zallacca is big has separate sexes and yogyarta is a good one and it has a few names. S.wallichiana from thailand has the wilder types sakum and rakum and the domesticated sala. Sexes are separate and they are big and thorny. Noen wong and sala variety sumalee are the best. Multiseeded fruit of sala are reputed to produce more female plants but suckers are better for propogation in all varieties and edible species.

Everything will be alright doesn't jive with me either. The climate change is normal and fluctuations are natural camp doesn't have many survivors these days. And the god will look after us camp was abandoned long ago. CO2 levels need to fall and emissions get increasing and vegetation clearing continues unabated.

What is the fruit like?

Achacha is too slow just use brasiliensis, intermedia or gardneriana and they flower straight away. My jumbo has its first flowers btw. There is no such thing as G.acuminata and when you see pics its obvious why.

It has been an aberrant El Nino which usually creates droughts in Eastern and Northern Australia and was predicted to do so. The reverse was true.

The time machine will need to go back more than 30 years. There is quite a story about the place.

That Ficus sure had a Pouteria vibe going on at a distance. I know there are dozens of fig species wild in my area so they can be hard to pin down.

The Chinese experience and published papers indicate growing seedling is not a good idea as they don't grow true and take way too long to fruit. The Australian experience and published papers suggests that is poppycock and they do grow pretty true and fruit in a respectable time frame.
The order of harvest of the varieties is a good indicator of cold tolerance with the earliest types being heat lovers and latest cold lovers. There are 3 good seedless and near seedless types so they're out. No Mai Chee, Red Ball, Salathiel, Wai chee, Chompogo and Baitaying are good cooler types worth a shot from seeds.

BTW DPI Gold on the mother tree are larger fruit than that in the pic

Trina is the manager of fruitforumfarm at Feluga and Kamerunga was the Government Quarantine and tropical fruit research facility between about 1890 and 1994. It imported tropical fruits and tested them. Most australian, mango, lychee, sapodilla, abiu, chupa chupa, pulasan, rambutan etc varieties went through and were distributed from there

I understand that dysenterica has a reputation and Jackson Pollock would be proud of the artworks lost to the S bend. I am assured that this is not necessarily so but that over indulgence in a range of Eugenias can lead to digestive tract issues.