Cold hardy to 28F/-2C, can be grown in a pot. Fruits 4-5 yrs from seed.
It’s the fruit that makes it so special. The peel is very sweet and chewy and the fruit inside balances it with a nice tartness. And bc you eat fruit+peel, it’s very nutritious.
I sell seedlings for $15 plus shipping available in early spring. Open to reservations now.
I just got this plant in a trade and I’m going to do a before and after 6 months pic to guilt the person I traded with as being a bad plant parent. This is the before pic. Will take a new pic beginning of June.
I knew that they probably get too large to keep in a pot but I found a mamey fruit 3 yrs ago that was the size of a large sopadilla and had a “small” seed inside. I grew it out thinking it would be a dwarf tree. Nope.
Last peanut butter fruit of the year (Bunchosia glandulifera). I have more hanging on the tree but not sure if they’ll ripen in the garage.
That time of year again, bringing hundreds of plants into the garage and sunroom. What’s wrong with me?? Why do I do this to myself?? 😩🥹 #gardening#fruit#GrowYourOwn#jardin#plantas#organic#fruta@plants
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It's completely normal and known as the annual plant migration - well, at least in this house. 🙂
And every autumn is a testament of my wife's love for me when the green invasion is taking over every single space with decent light in the house.
@bike@plants more accurately, a wild cousin of the avocado. The pre-domesticated avocado was likely not Persea schiedeana, it was a small version of Mexican avocado, and there are still some "wild" populations in the Mexican highlands that appear to have had minimal mixing with the domesticated genes. Here's one example, from this paper: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/47902
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One of my favourites! I have it growing under my blueberry shrubs, all in large containers. It likes similar conditions and looks great when the blueberries don't! @plants
have you ever had an orange/jamaican lilikoi (passiflora laurifolia)?
they're quite different from yellow/purple passionfruit. the shell is soft-ish. the inside is mild & perfumed. not sour at all.
they have beautiful purple flowers & cover everything (like other passionfruit). it seems like the flowers & fruits only occur on the "outside" of the plant curtain, so maybe i should thin it out a bit to get more fruit..
@mk30@plants the only time i had one was at the end of a hike on kauai with my aunty who lived there. It was very good. The only variety that grows where i live on the mainland is the purple one (still very good)
#TodayILearned that the delicious Mexican fruit sauce #Chamoy probably derives its name and recipe from the #Philippines’ “kiamoy”, which is a fruit sauce made with the same recipe. That recipe was in turn derived from a #Hokkien#Chinese recipe brought by Chinese immigrants, who called it 鹹梅 “kiam-mui” (literally: salted plums).
As a Hokkien descendant who loves #Mexican#fruit salads, this makes me happy.
People online have said that the curry tree berry has an interesting/distinct taste so I wanted to try. Last/this year, animals have been stealing them before ripe. But I finally got to try one.
They don’t taste good, no. They have the curry leaf flavor but with Pine-sol and a bit of sweetness. Seeds are mildly poisonous but are large so easily discarded.
Easy to grow tree. Fruits within a few months with cloning. Lots of delicious fruit - the birds agree. Tastes like almond joy candy if it were jammy and didn’t contain HFCS, just cane sugar. Doesn’t tolerate sustained cold temperatures. Bring inside in winter. Water hog. Gets big. Pest resistant.
Today's harvest, which will probably be the only harvest today since it's insanely humid AND supposed to storm most of the day.
We have one very small blueberry bush, and it has easily pumped out at least four or five pints of blueberries in the last few weeks. Clearly, the soil is right for blueberries, so we're planning to add a few more out there.