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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 17th January 2012 8:41am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Michael D Wakeley 17th January 2012 1:13pm #UserID: 1938 Posts: 116 View All Michael D's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Peter36 Perth 17th January 2012 1:39pm #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Mike says... Brendan they are not wild around here only the tropical pink fleshed one is on the coast and red cherry guava is feral on the tablelands.That is the wild/feral form of my mystery guava (brazil guava) that Peter from Perth helped identify.They look very similar but mine is a cultivated type with soft unviable tiny seeds,soft skin and yellow flesh (subs. asuna). | About the Author Cairns 17th January 2012 5:19pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Peter36 Perth 17th January 2012 5:39pm #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 18th January 2012 8:48am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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jo says... I bought a guava cherry tree (looks exactly like your tree) from Garden R Us a few years ago and they have been bearing abundant fruits. Need to protect them with mesh bags if one wants to enjoy the fruits which are very sweet and taste exactly like the big tropical guavas. Fruit fly baits are useless as the fruits still get attacked by the insects and the only alternative that I have is to use mesh netting/bags. The tree is a good privacy "screen" in my front yard (now it is "unsightly" adorned with mesh bags). jo | About the Author kingsford, nsw 18th January 2012 10:14am #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
Peter says... Hi Brendan, thanks for offering to take a picture. For me, it's just my interest in plant diversity to separate similar tasting guavas into different species, if they are. Last time we settled for 'brazil guava' for Mike's plant, but I keep my mind open if one day a specialist in Psidiums and related genera come across this forum. To have something very similar tasting, but from a different species or even just different cultivars can be an advantage sometimes, because these could have different levels of disease resistance to serious stuff like myrtle rust. I am not convinced that this newly arrived disease will be eradicated successfully - so not a bad idea to have a larger genetic variation of guavas and close relatives. | About the Author Peter36 Perth 18th January 2012 10:56am #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Cairns 18th January 2012 6:01pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Theposterformerlyknownas Brisbane 18th January 2012 9:12pm #UserID: 3270 Posts: 1552 View All Theposterformerlyknownas's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Peter says... I would not take myrtle rust lightly - mostly because of our native vegetation, having so many Myrtaceae species and it is dispersed by wind (much harder to do something against it). Some of them will be very sensitive to it and only make stunted growth as it attacks new shoots and soon you have to search for a healthy forest patch. I doubt as well, that it will wipe out cultivated edibles of the Mrytaceae in our gardens, neither dominating native species - so not exactly a horror story, but a heart breaking story. It is certainly reason enough for me to grief, but I know, the majority of people will not shed one tear. | About the Author Peter36 Perth 18th January 2012 11:27pm #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 18th February 2012 11:10am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Mike says... Brendan, Brazil Guavas, Psidium guineense are the most variable guava with the biggest natural range.My one is almost a continual fruiter,with yellow flesh instead of white in the picture and maybe has smaller seeds,and these are soft.Fruit flies prefer my yellow cherry guava but bugs would rather bite the brazil guava. | About the Author Cairns 18th February 2012 1:18pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
Peter says... Hi Brendan, thanks for the picture. Yes, as Mike says, I would also say P. guinense (=Brazil guava). Happy feast! Mike and you thinks, they are nicer tasting than the common guava and what an advantage that the fruit fly is less interested in them compared to other guavas. I have to look harder if these plants are available in Perth. | About the Author Peter36 Perth 18th February 2012 1:46pm #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 19th February 2012 9:59am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Peter36 Perth 20th February 2012 5:27pm #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author dardanup 15 kms east of bunbury 20th February 2012 6:28pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 22nd February 2012 10:12am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Peter36 Perth 22nd February 2012 10:53am #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 22nd February 2012 10:55am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 23rd February 2012 7:42am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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