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Originally Posted by harveyc
Update: my friend replied to the e-mail I sent him. He said that she indicated she grew the fruit which he listed (see above) as seeing there.
Pretty awesome, eh?  |
Growing Durian in So. Cal. and actually producing fruit for market is awesome, but pretty surprising. According to the Echonet website, "Durian is extremely cold sensitive and poorly adapted to Florida soil." But then according to TopTropicals,they have a variety, "The red and yellow-fleshed fruits are Durio graveolans, more tolerant of S. Florida conditions and taste like peanut butter." I have never seen a "red and yellow fleshed" Durian, much less a Durian that tastes
like peanut butter. And as warm as it gets in the Philippines, though they may grow everywhere there, they do not thrive well in the areas north of Mindanao, the southern most region of the country.
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Originally Posted by momoese
Wouldn't it be easier just to call her and ask if she actually has Coconut trees producing? I could take a drive out there but I'd want to be sure that I was at the correct place and hopefully get a photo op and tour/interview while there. I must say that I'm very skeptical though. It gets really cold there, way colder than here at my house and I have no illusions of growing coconut tress here.
I remember . . . . .? Hmm
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To be fair, I can tell you that in 1988, I used to see a couple of coconut trees near the beach in Manhattan Beach, when I used to spend weekdays in El Segundo for our project with Xerox for several months. (We went to Manhattan Beach for dinner.) The first time I saw ithem, I was so mesmerized, because I always read that they couldn't grow in this area. I don't believe that even these will thrive, if not live long enough to produce fruit. Although seeing them, I was so fascinated that when I got back home in Seattle, I just had to have them, so I ordered a couple of them from Florida. They are now in coconut heaven.
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Originally Posted by harveyc
I don't remember . . . . . . . ..
I am also confident that the coconut comment in the article is correct (note that is something my friend did not report seeing her sell), though there are some hardy types that most of us wouldn't consider a coconut. I have a small Bolivian coconut. Maybe the grower made some vague reference to something like that which got picked up by the reporter.
If I recall . . . .. . .. I can't find it now. 
Come on, Mitchel, a field trip is in order! :P
Harvey |
I am not aware of any coconut that can be considered hardy. There are some palms that have the name "coconut" that are in fact not coconuts, not just not considered as such. There are ornamental coconuts that are true coconuts and are members of the "Cocos" family.(The ones we had in pots in the Philippines came from Malaya (now Malaysia). The specie that you have is not. It's a very pretty plant though:
PlantFiles: Pictures of Pasopaya Palm, Bolivian Mountain Coconut (Parajubaea torallyi)