The Tropical Fruit Forum

Many seeds ordered never got a final answer!

Hello Mike, sorry for late reply, i've just answered to your order request.

Seed list updated.
Fuseae longifolia and Helicostylis pedunculata added.

Hello everyone, here is a list of currently available seeds from the Guiana's forest.
All seeds are fresh, shipped just after cleaned from the fruit. Unviable seeds are discarded.
Please note that almost all seeds for sale are recalcitrant and are sent with moist medium to avoid any dessication. For this reason, it is not possible to send seeds with a seed import permit except if seed permit allow coco fiber or vermiculitis with the seeds.
All packets are sent by tracked priority airmail (no express mail) in flat bubble envelope. I can add CN22 customs declaration if needed.
Payments are done by paypal as friend.
Ship worlwide.
Please send order request to : colombo403@yahoo.fr

Other seeds are also available on my eBay page : https://www.ebay.fr/usr/colombo40358




Loreya mespiloides

So far the best tasting fruit of the Melastomataceae familly and more.
A true delicacy. Cauliflorous fruits are up to 2 cm in diameter. Delightful pulp (wild strawberry taste), nice edible thin skin, and very tiny seeds. A winner with great potential but surprisingly still unknown in cultivation. Seeds dormancy is broken with sun exposure (must be sown in surface), grow well in poor soil.
50+ seeds pack : 12 euros




Bertholletia excelsa - Brazil nut

Well known for its famous edible seeds.
Seeds can take a very long time to sprout, up to 2 years and more, sometimes 6 months.
Sprouted seeds are at least 2 cm long tap root.
2 euros each seed.
30 euros each sprouted seed.




Theobroma grandiflorum - Cupuassu

King of fruits of the Amazonian bassin. Absolutely delicious in juices, sherbet, and creams.
Sprouted seeds only, ungerminated seeds are too sensible to mail transit.
Each sprouted seed is 8 euros.




Talisia carinata

Small shrub, usually unbranched, 2 meters tall, suitable for container growing.
Fruits are 1.5 to 2 cm in length. Sweet and addictive.
3 euros each seed.




Talisia mollis

Small tree, usually unbranched, taller than T. carinata (3 to 4 meters), suitable for container growing too.
Fruits are more rounded, 1.5 cm in diameter. Not as sweet as T. carinata but still addictive too.
3 euros each seed.




Talisia carinata ssp

This is a variant of regular Talisia carinata.
Fruits taste and quality is improved also pulp doesn't cling to seeds.
Few seeds available.
4 euros each seed.





Fusaea longifolia - Kukumwy (Annonaceae)
Fruit up to 10cm in diameter. Small tree, usually less than 5 meters tall.
Sweet delicious pink pulp, few seeds.
Considered as a delicacy locally.
Rare and still unknow in cultivation.
6 euros each seed.




Helicostylis pedunculata - Takini (Moraceae)
The bright yellow fruits are up to 4 cm in diameter.
The skin of the fruit is thin and edible with the yellow juicy translucid pulp.
Taste is delicious, perfectly sweet acidic balanced.
Rare and still unknown in cultivation.
The bark is also used for shamanic and hallucinogenic purposes by Amazonian natives.
5 euros each seed.




Parinari campestris (Chrysobalanaceae)
Thin edible skin, the green pulp is nicely sweet/acidic.
The nut is delicious.
2 euros each seed.

Buriti palm seeds added

Peach Palm seeds added

Fresh seeds available for sale.
Ship worldwide by tracked priority airmail.
Contact by PM or email colombo403@yahoo.fr


Kasim - Annona paludosa var. Uyapkun




Small shrub up to 3 meters tall. Fast growing and fast fruiting, unsually less than 2 years.
Uyapkun is a superior variety of Kasim, fruits are bigger with excellent taste. White translucid sweet pulp with lot of tiny seeds.
3 euros each seed.


Pakayakni - Annona sp (could be Annona densicoma).





Small shrub up to 2 meters tall.
Very similar to A. paludosa.
Fruits are smaller but taster better with a delicious creamy pulp. Less seeds but twice larger than A. paudosa seeds.
Rarity.
8 euros each seed.


Cecropia peltata




Very very fast growing tree, up to 15-20 meters tall. Can be kept smaller.
Fruits are sweet and tasty, similar to raspberry in taste.
Nicely ornamental.
30 seeds packet is 7 euros.


Bactris gasipaes - Peach Palm





3 Varieties available : Red, Orange and Yellow
2,50 euros each seed.


Top Annona montana




Big fruit, juicy and very nice pineapple taste.
9 euros for a 10 seeds pack. 


Mauritia flexuosa - Buriti palm



Sweet/acidic fruit with high content of C vitamin.
Dioecious, it needs male and female plant for fruits.
3 euros each seed.


Coffea X Arabusta



Hybrid between Arabica (C. arabica) and Robusta (C. canephora).
Vigourous and produce coffee beans of a great quality.
10 euros for a 10 seeds pack.

looks like a nice specimen- how would you rate it compared to paludosa? thoughts on it as a container plant?

Assuming seeds will be for sale at some point?

I have absolutely no luck with these small seeded annona but keep trying

Better than A. paludosa in my opinion.
The plant is smaller than A. paludosa, i would say same shape and size of A. sericea, but multi stemmed.
It should be a perfect container plant.
Both A. paludosa and A. sericea seeds are bulletproof, they keep viable for a long time (up to 1 year at least).
I have high germination rate with seeds partially exposed to direct sun, most of these Annonacea grow where forest is perturbated and ground exposed to sunlight. So i think sun exposure break seed dormancy.
It should be the same with Pakayakni.
And yes, i will add it to my seedlist for sale soon.

Ambelania acida seeds added

New seeds added

Richard- you keep pulling me back in,

Any tips on sprouting the Chrysophyllum species? I always have trouble

I find Chrysophyllum seeds faster to sprout than pouteria.
That said some are still longer to sprout, like C. argenteum.
They sprout well under heavy rain when just on soil surface, but it is not easy to have heavy tropical rains in backyard for everyone here 
Moist vermiculite in zip plastic bag works fine too.

Cordia nodosa seeds added

Nice looking species.. I regret to inform you that the Pouteria Guianensis seeds I got from you were all unviable due to a seed boring insect. Just an FYI for anyone else who ordered these, might be worth checking your pots or seeds.

Hello,

Sorry to hear that.
99% of the seeds i send are collected in the wild and seed boring insect risk can happens even if it is relatively rare.
When such a thing happens, do not hesitate to contact me and let me know as soon as you receive the seeds.
Please send me your order details by PM or email.