The Tropical Fruit Forum

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Yes it's a little bit like Garcinia forbesi and Garcinia parvifolia but may be the labelling was not good because few year ago in Kuching I tasted Kandis (Garcinia nitida) and the fruit was yellow and sour. That's the problem in this country the scientifics names may change if you're are in Sabah or in Sarawak (not a lot correlation between the specialists). It's the same thing with the labelling of Salacca edulis (I think it's a kind of affinis)

Gouralata

How are your Salacca plantation ?

About five or six months

Gouralata

Go to Miri then Bekenu and ask for Durio testudinarium or go to the Lambir hills park near Miri and inform you with the guards about the Durio dulcis (Tuttong or red durian or durian merah). They have two big trees of this species near the entrance. I think in Kuching it will not be the fruit season so move to Sibu, Bintulu or Miri. You may have more good surprises in the south of Sabah at this time.

Gouralata (ten times in Sarawak)

I think it's a kind of Kaempferia, may be Kaempferia galanga.

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This one seems to be a Terap (marang) or a Pedalaï (Atocarpus sericicarpus). But if the leaves begin to be entires so it's a terap.

Gouralata (Reunion Island)

The wood and the flowers remind me Casimiroa edulis but the leaves seem different.

Gouralata

In Sarawak Phaleria macrocarpa (Makota dewa) is use like a médicinal drink. You have to cut the fruit in thin slices, let them dry then put in boil water (how long I don't know).

Gouralata (I will answer my Sarawakian friends and send you a personnal message in french)

Pangium edule.

Gouralata

  Impossible to know the speed of the wind, we noticed that some little place are completely distroyed and two meters further one papaya or an avocado are completely safe (no leaves down). The same way happened with the garden of one my friend (half garden is destroyed and half safe). I think your informations are the same we got but the meteo services didn't warn anybody so they don't want to recognize what it happens. Even the prefect (like governor) let people goes working this morning.

Gouralata

Thank you for your friendly messages.
My place is in the North East of reunion Island. I think I'll can save few of my trees (wild durio zibethinus and one rambutan) but one of my Durio dulcis (12M high) is really dead.
   Life will go on and new trees will be planted.
Some trees are wind resistant: salak, Theobroma cacao, Garcinia mangostana, Manilkora sapota, Mangifera indica, Garcinia parvifolia, Myrciaria jaboticaba. One other lesson: in hurricane place don't let grow the trees upper than 6 meters.

Gouralata

Hi Doug,

   For me before flowering it's impossible to distinguish male and female. The only good new I can give you it's that I noticed than male plants flower before in age than female plants.
  So wait ans see...

Gouralata

Yes for the dango but I don't know the species (big like W.elmeri but the flesh color is different).
I saw one time that kind of pulasan in Miri (Sarawak) the skin is the same as others pulasans.

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