The Tropical Fruit Forum

Those mongrel orange footed scrub fowl have caused tree casualties in my yard also.

Not a chance. Luc's should go on an american one like gardneriana or brasilienses. Achachas work but have poor growth.

Heya Raul I am glad you are experiencing starapple action. In the starapple world there is a higher mountain to climb and that is variety Alva. It is my mistake if I never sent you seeds buddy.

Rarity and fruit quality also have no relationship to the prices and they seems pretty random.

I didn't realise you guys have access to true/ pure mexican types.

Mmmm Woopen Creek is that Blair? Anyway Woopen Creek averages right on 4000mm/yr and Ravenshoe almost on the same latitude is a comparative dustbowl with around 1400mm/yr average and its at 920m (3000ft) altitude. Comparing apples with oranges with mango varieties and the choices for Woopen Creek are limited.
I remember the white fleshed indica from Kamerunga and it was next to the carpark. Cairns City Council were eager to get rid of it and in fact anything rare or odd. It was 1994 they chopped it down I believe but there are still a few mangoes of unknown types on the property. The flesh wasn't really white and it didn't strike me as something special unlike say the row of various varieties of pulasan.

I see mamea and cannonball trees around town and in one part they are planted near each other. I never thought about it but yes young trees and the fruit look alike. Cannonballs are not edible btw. Cannonballs gave the fruit on the lower trunk on a tangle of stalks but they can creep up on to branches and higher on the trunk. Mammea americana has smaller leaves with fruit on branches and towards terminal areas more. I am in the abrigato camp.

Great stuff and it is good to see such experimentation with avos. If Florida and Hawaii are the ferrari's of avocadoes Australia is a rickety skateboard with only a handful of cold loving Guatemalans on offer.

Great looking fruit that and way bigger than the standard.

The brazilian macrophylla is nowhere near as good or big fruited. South east Asian species generally are not as cold hardy as South American species from the same latitude. Trying to figure if American Garcinias are dioecious or monoecious or both within a species and what the sex ratios are seems to be like trying to rope the wind.

There are number of glamorous lychee varieties in Australia that appear not to have made it to the US yet. Maybe you guys aren't ready for them yet and are still going through your sweetheart and hak ip phase. An out of sequence lychee might be very disruptive.

Yes get Golden Queen from Trina and it fruits 2 months later than most. Cedar bay/Rabaul does pretty well in the wet tropics. Keow sawoy does alright as well.Honey gold likes it a bit drier and cooler.

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