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mochimo
MIddle Blue
Indonesia
December 2, 2012 3:36 AM Post #9347357
| I got some unusual fruits couple years ago, bought by a friend who interested with the fruit he never saw before from nomad seller. He buy some, just a few to taste it. At home we eat the fruit in curiosity and found the fruit are good, it taste sweet, like a longan. While attempting to get another bunch of the fruit, the seller were already gone, and all we have is some seeds to grow.
The fruit flesh are whitish, with a rounded/oval fruit shape smaller than an apple.
The seeds of mine is growing so slow, now after so long, the seedling starting to grow..
I would like to know if anyone here have a clue of the ID via the leafs, and the growth pattern.
Thank you
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nel5397
Groveland, FL
December 2, 2012 12:08 PM Post #9347789
| guava? |
mochimo
MIddle Blue
Indonesia
December 2, 2012 2:30 PM Post #9347923
| Hello nel5397, thank you for coming :)
I think its different, the fruit have tree section each with a seed inside the tasty flesh..
The growth pattern is interesting to me since the new leafs emerge together from the center of the stem and in line with the older leafs. The plant got two branch after the main stem torn out by ignorant workers building a house near my garden. The branch emerge from each side. |
medlarman
Fairfax, VA (Zone 7a)
December 2, 2012 2:36 PM Post #9347928
| Is the skin also white, or only the inside of the fruit is white? |
mochimo
MIddle Blue
Indonesia
December 2, 2012 3:06 PM Post #9347946
| Its light yellow..The inner skin are more pale than the outer skin. |
fc_upland
Upland, CA
December 2, 2012 7:39 PM Post #9348265
| Wild guess : A Syzygium species |
mochimo
MIddle Blue
Indonesia
December 2, 2012 9:02 PM Post #9348323
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Well, the fruit is very similar with the Sandoricum koetjape but with much lighter in the yellow color.
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steadycam3
Houston Heights, TX (Zone 9a)
December 2, 2012 11:47 PM Post #9348357
| Can you describe the seeds please? |
vngarden
Seattle, WA
December 4, 2012 12:40 PM Post #9349696
| My limited knowledge led me to believe that it is Bighia sapida.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1176&bih=590&gbv=2&tb...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blighia
Meant so say Blighia sapida.
This message was edited Dec 4, 2012 2:15 PM |
Vestia
San Francisco, CA
December 4, 2012 3:42 PM Post #9349861
| Blighia, named after a famous sea captain whos crew mutinied; some say because he wanted to water the plants before the crew. |
Darwiniensis
Darwin
Australia
December 6, 2012 12:35 AM Post #9351063
| Looks to me like a Garcinia or some other member of the Clusiaceae family. |
annette_c
Eustis, FL (Zone 9a)
December 6, 2012 4:53 AM Post #9351110
| Maybe Garcinia macrophylla ?
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medlarman
Fairfax, VA (Zone 7a)
December 6, 2012 6:18 AM Post #9351156
| If not G. macrophylla, something else in that family. I was thinking maybe yellow mangosteen, but their fruit is yellow inside, not white. |
