Caribbean Fruit trees - Wanted (forum)

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Hi Everyone,

I am hoping your wealth of knowledge can assist me in my search for some Caribbean fruit trees. I'm specifically looking for the following 5 trees:

- Barbados Cherry Tree aka Malpighia Emarginata
- Barbados Ackee Tree aka Melicoccus Bijugatus aka Spanish Lime
- Breadfruit tree
- Dunks Tree aka Ziziphus Mauritiana
- Golden Apple Tree aka Spondias cytherea

Please contact me if you have any plants, trees or seeds available for sale.

Many thanks

Karen


Time: 17th May 2016 11:29am

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Julz_T says...
Hi, I have a HUGE breadfruit tree which has many younger ones growing beneath and around it due to fruit falling and growing. Depending where you are it would probably be easier to send you seeds however the season has recently finished so it could be a little while before I can get some to you

Time: 24th May 2016 11:17am

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Trikus says...
Would be suckers from the roots as Breadfruit does not usually have seeds.

Time: 26th May 2016 4:25pm

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Mrs Quinn says...
Hi Julz,

I'd be very happy to accept any and all seeds/plants that you are willing to part with. Please let me know how we can chat to arrange payment and postage etc.

cheers

Karen

Time: 27th May 2016 11:42am

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Julz_T says...
Hi,
I had a look today and there are plenty of babies - I'd be more than happy to send you a couple although Im about to go away for 3 weeks so it'd have to be after that. If you've any nifty ideas for packaging and sending let me know :)

Time: 27th May 2016 10:44pm

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Manfred says...
Where's Ngunnawal? If it's the Canberra area location why bother trying breadfruit? It won't grow, except in a heated greenhouse. Mine loses its leaves if the temperature ever gets below 10 degrees overnight.

Like Trikus says, breadfruits don't seed. Perhaps you have a breadnut in Finlayvale. It still won't grow in Canberra.

Time: 31st May 2016 8:15pm

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Mrs Quinn says...
Thanks Manfred, I am well aware that Ngunnawal is not a suitable location for growing tropical fruit trees.

Time: 1st June 2016 11:10am

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Mrs Quinn says...
HI Trikus,

Breadfruit does actually seed, although its not the preferred option for propagation as the seeds are temperamental. I can only guess that we eat the breadfruit before it's had an opportunity to grow it's seeds, that's why the seeds are an unknown.
Cheers

Time: 1st June 2016 11:13am

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Julz_T says...
Hi Mrs Quinn,

I'm not sure how to email you directly but if you want to send me your email we can work out something for getting them to you. They may struggle a bit down south but it can't hurt to try! It'd be worth it just for a few roasted breadfruit!
Cheers :)

Time: 1st June 2016 7:07pm

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Manfred says...
So I guess all that effort by the Royal Navy to get breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies was wasted. The mutiny on the Bounty need never have happened if they had simply had the knowledge of breadfruit which Mrs Quinn of Ngunnawal has. They could simply have sent a few seeds and saved all that effort and acrimony.

Mrs Quinn should write a book on the subject, since all the other books are clearly wrong.

Time: 2nd June 2016 11:57am

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Mrs Quinn says...
Thank you for your input Manfred.
Mrs Quinn of Ngunnawal has an extensive family tree dating back 350 years of living throughout the islands of the West Indies. So we kinda know a bit about our fruit trees. I'll leave the authoring to you and your 93 posts on this forum, clearly you know it all.

Time: 6th June 2016 10:19am

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