Fallen fruit website? A way to get free seeds legally

[KimYoonmi]

My particular city has a rule that if fruit is on public ground it's legal to pick it up. Not like chop down a tree or saw off branches, but say orange as rolled on the government strip outside the house, then you can pick it up and it's not "stealing". There is a website called "fallen fruit" which curates maps of places around the world with trees on public land which have edible goods.

Caveat here, but you probably also should download a plant identifier app as well to triple check if the thing you're picking is actually the thing you're looking for.

I used it to pick up some carob from a public strip....

but then there were a lot of false hits on the app too since people confused carob with Cassia fistula ironically and colloquially known as "Golden shower" which is mildly poisonous, so I'd really ask that people are careful if you opt in and double check the classification (also ignore the mushroom section. Too dangerous).

To me, it was free seeds that are legal to pick up. I managed to pick up... cactus seeds from an edible cactus, free wild fennel seeds, carob, honey locust and free jacaranda seeds (not edible, but ya know).

I'm saying if it's legal in your neck of the woods, maybe you get a free tree out of the seeds.

None of the carob I actually picked up, BTW, were Sante Fe since I spotted male trees nearby. TT But I found a source for the scions, so wish me luck.

[Epiphyte]

where in the los angeles area are you located?  i'm in sylmar and glendale near los feliz.  the fallen fruit website is a cool idea.  yesterday i spent several hours searching a bunch of wild fig trees next to 10 freeway for male figs to try pollinating figs of other species.  besides finding and eating at least a dozen different female figs, i ate...

big orange opuntia - sweet and juicy, seeds weren't too big, but it was a little mushy, maybe it was overripe.  i took a few cuttings.
canary island date palm? - despite living here for half a century, it was my 1st time trying the fruit.  it was very good, tasted just like a date, but a lot smaller. 
white mulberry 

there was a tree with small orange fruit that i didn't recognize.  didn't taste the fruit but took a pic.  closest i found via google lens was diospyros lotus but hard to tell.

i also wandered the nearby neighborhood for a bit.  saw cherimoya trees, ice cream bean trees, mango trees, passionfruit, bananas and more.  one front yard had quite a nice collection of fruit trees and i started talking to the guy on the porch.  he was a really nice guy named jose from colima mexico.  on his parkway strip he had a guamuchil and there was one perfectly ripe fruit on it which he shared with me.  it was my 1st time tasting it.  the texture was strange but i enjoyed it.  it was sweet with a flavor kinda like a peanut or almond.  he also shared a corriente mango (supposed to be a good rootstock) with me and 4 big juicy sweet lemons/limes. 

i took a bunch of pics that i'll post when i finish grafting the gazillion fig scions i took yesterday and pollinating my ficus formosana, ficus aspera and others. 

then again, i still haven't posted the pics from my foraging of forest lawn cemetery in glendale a couple weeks ago.  i was also trying to find male figs. 

here's a thread that might be of interest... list of fruit trees in los angeles parks.  earlier this year i started planting fruit trees in a public space in sylmar.  ideally all public spaces should be packed with the widest variety of fruiting plants.