Tropical Fruit Forum - International Tropical Fruit Growers

More chance of the Martians landing on your front lawn than these species being able to pollinate abius.

Not many Garcinias should be called mangosteen and especially the American ones. There are many good species of Garcinia to choose from.

If this is the very large Taiwanese variety then yes and it is very good. The seed is flattened and it is a better tasting late fruit than Keitt.

Ripe fruit are sweet yes and quite pleasant. Avocado is not fibrous and ripe breadfruit doesn't taste like avocadoes. The claims are illegitimate.

Breadfruit thrive in my area and are very productive right now I see trees, even small ones loaded with fruit around the place. They seem to thrive when it is 25c min to say 33c max continually with rain and heavy humidity.

From SE Brazil and good cold tolerance. Very similar in many way to brasiliensis and gardneriana and also has a few variations and better types like these two.

M.cauliflora and M.jaboticaba are probably the same species so should be compatible.

Yes it has good qualities like that. It also has big eyes not not quite like some big eye sugar apples. Here is one on my tree right now. That is an indicator of fewer seeds.

Some of the Annona enthusiasts may recall I posted a picture of Russells Rollinia Selection a few months ago. It was one of the best I ever tried. It is in the sputnik style (deliciosa style) with great taste and few seeds. Below is a pic of that rollinia.


Today a chum brought over a fruit which looked like a big sugar apple to confirm it was a rollinia. It sure was and in the mucosa style and it rivals Russells Selection and has firmer flesh, even fewer seeds and is low on sliminess. What a great. I insisted on chopping it in half to identify it but I already knew what it was.

Seeds were sent to Whitman I think it was of variety Gray a long time ago and they will still be circulating in Florida under a different name. It seems abiu almost identical to Z4 are now grown in Taiwan also.

People asked the same about lychees and scions and it is very possible for them to be sent its just no one has done it.

I too am qualified in geography and have a keen interest in biogeography and climate. There are a lot of breadfruit grown my area and lots of varieties. I'm sure you have seen the published material on cold tolerances of breadfruit and it is interesting that minimum tolerable temps for breadfruit are variously claimed to be between 8c and 0c. I think the expansion of growing areas of many tropical fruits due to climate warming is much slower than what people think. Even when you look at temp change maps for the last 100 years it is very modest and it would be best to consider if extreme minimums are changing not average temps. It may be worthwhile to test various varieties and look for warmer/sheltered microclimates at 26 latitude.

Chempadak is much like jackfruit and I won't go to the yard and take a pic. Zero chance you seedling is a chempa.

The seeds are not true seeds but vegetative bodies and many of the langsat group have a similar thing going on.