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alpha010 · 05-14-2009, 06:22 PM

manzanos are small bananas in hands of around 12-18 and are nicely sweet with a fruity aftertaste. Caimito is commonly called STAR APPLE is generally green or purple and has a sweet plummy/citrus taste to me and is not to be confused with carambola which is STAR FRUIT. Asian guava that I tried was horrid! I may have tried it before it was properly ripe, but it was extremely astringent, the scent when cut almost made my eyes water. It was like sticking my face in a tank of witch hazel and rubbing alcohol mixed.

Anyways, most of the fruit I order are basically a try before you buy type deal. I try the fruit, and if my family and I even just like it, then I will try to grow it. My big fruit drawback is that I live in zone 5b/6a and 95% of exotic plants (especially fruit trees) will perish in my weather. But that doesn't necessarily stop me. I am currently growing 1 dwarf cavendish banana, 1 ice cream banana, 1 double mahoi banana, 1 dwarf lady finger banana, 1 medium sized garden with about 20 varieties of left side of normal veggies, germinating passiflora incarnata "maypop" passion fruit, japanese barberry, and recently found growing in my weeds are wild blackberries. As to tastes....not sure yet, I'll get back to you on those.

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