The Tropical Fruit Forum

Newgen. that is a good selection alright but I think the vendor should be wearing a balaclava.Fuyu is the most common crisp seedless persimmon in NZ/Aust that originates in Japan.The rambutan looks like rongrien to me and is a good variety.The longkong also look like a good cv and if there a high degree of seedlessness ie 50% of so then they definately are.The sugar is in the lessard style with large fruit and reduced seed numbers.They are not as sweet as most sugar apples and the more knobbly large greens are preferred in thailand.The trees look just like sugar apples but I also suspect a feather of custard apple or cherimoya DNA in them.

FGM I got alright.I reckon Adam is lucky the whopper is a deliciosa.Who would want to have mucosa on their rear end permanently?

No Harry there are many native brightly colored fruits around here that are edible but not really palatable.Birds and other wildlife consume them with relish.

Everyone says Australia has great beeches.There is a passing resemblance to gmelina....australian white beech.

JF you must be eating the very small ones.I've heard with PC's that microsoft is best.

The atemoya on the right of the original picture was breakfast and it was darn good.Very much in the pinks' mammoth style with flesh every bit as good.....firm but gentle.The skin staining has no effect on the flesh.

The challenge is how to overcome the bias towards the common types that everyone has tried.Fruitlovers suggestion would work but it is hard to set up and even averages can be misleading.Would a grandmother and 4 tots at a party mean the average age at the shindig was 21?
If you add a few or one type that only you'll vote for, does it help? Polls are hard.

I am loaded with stories but the biggest burr under the saddle and sand in the vaseline happened about 3 years ago.I travelled around thailand collecting the seeds of their finest fruits, visiting farms,leaping fences and scouring markets on many places.With Salacca wallichiana my hunt for cv sumalee took me many places and I had to discard the imposters like sala noen wong,sane,moh and even rakum and sagum.My hunt for the the giant sweet wan maprang was also fruitful after trying many wan styles.I snatched the rare lotus seeds from the remote temple,secured durians seeds like laplae and chanthabri 1.I found freaky sugar apples and loads of other classy seeds.
It was disneyland of sucess where all the pieces of the puzzles fell in place and I was laden.It had been a great trip with a clean sweep of all I'd hope for and spiced up with many unexpected good surprizes.My paperwork was in order and australian customs inspected my decared haul in Sydney.They just said no and confiscated the lot not wanting to view my paperwork,permissions,my abstracts from their legislation or anything else.It got heated, when security came I demanded they arrest these shonky officers who defied their own Act but it was I who was escorted away.
My outrage was beyond words when I found out the seeds were destroyed with a bullet,I was not advised of appeal rights and the customs officers had at least 5 breaches of protocol piling on top of each other.I

The rollinias are so variable in terms of size,shape and skin conditiion and this is not an exceptional individual.They have been for sale by one stallholder for a few weeks at the market and trays of them all look the same an just like this.The quality is pretty good and that was a fee one too ripe to sell.I will pounce when I see a giant sweet sputnik or a big fat classic mucosa and even keep some seeds then.

Harry I also think there is an element of competition between growers,government and organizations as well that makes them improve fruit types.I bet the release of the Maroochy Gold atemoya by the Qld Govt was the spark that made the Aust. Custard Apple Association develop and release Tropic Sun.The desire to upstage the competition also exists in nurseries it seems.

Almost too far gone this small R.deliciosa was starting to lose some of its tang in spite of being an excellent citrusy variety.I reckon most annonas and rollinias should be eaten a little green and much is lost in over-ripe fruit That I see some people consume.The same is true of many tropuicsal fruits.

My search the inca gold abiu has finally borne fruit after it seems to have gone missing from markets and nurseries.A friend of a friend had a heavily producing tree in their yard.Characteristically a small,low nipple was present, av. 1.2lbs, a single small seed and less uniformity of flesh color than it's rivals.The rich sweet caramel flavor is where it excells and this was confirmed.It is always on the recommended lists of 4 or 5 varieties and is considered a 'superior' type.

Morris4000 Like my Hawaiin shirts biew kiew are always in good taste.They are crisp,light cheerful and round yet maintain an edge.There are cinnamin overtones and savory undertones with a fruity after-finish shining through. Biew kiew has a bold flavor yet modest bouquet and this ambivalence makes for an exciting fruit.Yes Morris biew kiew is my longan of choice.