Guess these tropical fruits.....

maspirasjr

18 years ago

All right, fruit afficionados, here they are!

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Enjoy!

Marcelo

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Eggo
18 years ago
AWESOME Pictures Marcelo!!!
Let me try.
Mamey sapote on the first picture.
Looks like a velvet apple on the second?
3rd, it almost looks like pictures of a sausage tree that I've seen but shapes look different?
Jackfruit is a given. =)
Canistel on the 5th picture.
8th picture, looks almost like some kind of amla thingy, i have no idea?
The 9th picture, the fruits almost look like some kind of longkong/lansium?? Can it be?
Oh well those are my wild guesses. The 6th and 10th picture looks so familiar.
patusho25
18 years ago
MMMMMM, lets see...

1.mamey
2. chico zapote?
3.candle stick tree
4. jackfruit
5. canistel
6. abiu
7. ???
8. Spondias purpurea cv. lutea
9. Theobroma spp.
1. Pachira spp.
2. jobo? green caimito?
Did I fail? lol
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The white sticky mounds are the housing for cochineal bugs (also known as mealy bugs.) Spray with insecticidal soap or unscented dish soap. Mealy bugs cause damage by sucking the juice from their host plants and excrete the excess sugars as a substance called honeydew. The affected leaves turn yellow and eventually drop from the plant. They also cause fruits, vegetables, and flower buds to prematurely drop off. In a bad infestation, their waxy excretions encourage the development of sooty mold fungus which completely destroy the plant. You will notice a fluffy white wax produced in the leaf axils or on the stems and branches of the plant. You will notice an accumulation of honeydew which makes the plants sticky and encourages the growth of sooty molds, giving the leaf and stem surfaces a blackened appearance Due to infestation you will notice that the plant as lost its vigor and the leaves start to turn yellow and eventually drop. As a result, plants may be stunted, or even killed Infested plants will stop growing, and will have a very depressed shrivel look like as though you have not watered them for days. You will see a trail of ants around your garden and on the plants. Ants breed and protect mealy bugs for their honeydew secretions and may help to spread them through the collection. The ants protect the mealy bugs from their natural enemies such as small wasps that act as parasites on the mealy bugs and from predators such as ladybugs. The presence of the ants is very important to the mealy bugs’ survival, and elimination of the ants using poisonous ant baits, will usually mean the destruction of the mealy bug colonies.
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Eggo
18 years ago
lol. well I think I failed miserably.
patusho25
18 years ago
lol, weÂ´ll see; letÂ´s wait for marceloÂ´s answers,

marcelo, where did this pictures were taken????? florida?
chris32599
18 years ago
Well I think they are:

1) Mamey sapote
2) Mabolo (Diospyros discolor)
3) Candle stick tree
4) Jackfruit
5) Canistel
6) Mimusops sp ???not sure I got the spelling right
7) Bignay (Antidesmasa sp)
8) Mombin (Spondias sp)
9) Malay Gooseberry (Phylanthus sp)
1. Matisia (Matisia cordata)
2. Caimito
maspirasjr
Original Author
18 years ago
Eggo, Patusho and Chris, you guys are really GOOD! All the fruits were listed in your responses, though not necessarily in the right order. Still, these were not easy to guess, so you all did very well. These fruits were all shot 3 wks ago in situ in the Fruit & Spice Park in Homestead, south of Miami, with the exception of the abiu, langsat and chupa chupa (Matisia), which were shot at Bill Whitman's yard in Miami.

They are:

1. Pouteria sapota (mamey sapota)
2. Diospyros discolor (mabolo or velvet apple)
3. Parmentiera cereifera (candle tree fruit)
4. Artocarpus heterophyllus (jackfruit)
5. Pouteria campechiana (canistel)
6. Mimusops balata (ausubo)
7. Antidesma buniatus (bignay)
8. Spondias mombin (ciruela or jocote)
9. Lansium domesticum (langsat)
10.Matisia cordata (chupa chupa)
11.Pouteria abiu (abiu)

Nice job, guys!

Marcelo
northtexasgirl
18 years ago
Ooh!!! That was SO much fun!! I am learning so much here. Loved all those pictures. :)

Leona
patusho25
18 years ago
Hi Marcelo, I belive you got #8 wrong. It is actually Spondias purpurea cv. lutea or Spondias cirouella, not Spondias mombin. Check MortonÂ´s pictures.

In here the yellow cultivar (juicy) of Spondias purpurea is more common than the purple one (crunchy).
maspirasjr
Original Author
18 years ago
My bad.....you're right, Patusho!! Oooops. Thanks for that correction. The interesting thing is that when we went on the fruit tour, we had the opportunity to taste as much fruit as we wanted. In addition, we could even snap cuttings from the tree-apparently they're that easy to propagate!

Marcelo
Eggo
18 years ago
Marcelo, are Spondias species that easy to root. I've seen cuttings rooted like this before on the ambarella.

YOu guys sure know your fruits. But really, I did get a few right, did I win anything?!! lol.
patusho25
18 years ago
Spondias purpurea cuttings are so easily rooted (at least in here), just sticked in the ground and water once and thatÂ´s it. I just rooted 2 3ft-long branches (2 months ago) and they both are growing already (with no care, I was in California).

Marcelo: did your Spondias purpurea cv. lutea cutting took?

Eggo: we all did great and deserve some FREE seeds, donÂ´t we? >=D
Eggo
18 years ago
haha...we do. =)
User
18 years ago
Marcelo, you need to shave them arms!
journey149
18 years ago
are you sharing the seeds?
racor_2006
18 years ago
Does anyone know where I can buy Yellow Mombin (Spondias Mombin) or Red/Purple Mombin (Spondias Purpurea) in Southern California? I have been able to find Ambarella but the quality is not as good as the mombin.

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