Rare and Superior Fruit Trees

	Common Name: Abiu Botanical Name: Pouteria Caimito Family: Sapotaceae Origin: Brazil Plant Size: Medium Varieties: RCF GOLD, Lucky, Oro Verde, Seedlings Season: Year Round, December main harvest season Description: Abiu was introduced in the Philippines by Dr. Roberto Coronel in 1986 from Australia. Abiu is a native fruit from the Amazon in Brazil. The pulp has a smoothcreamy texture, and it tastes like caramel flan.
	Common Name: Atemoya Botanical Name: Annona Squamosa x Annona Cherimola Family: Annonaceae Origin: Florida Plant Size: Small Varieties: Atemoya 1, Atemoya 2, African Pride, Geffner Season: June-September is the harvest season Description: Fairly fast-growing tree closely resembling the cherimoya. Trees often stay small, growing only to 15ft, but may reach up to 30ft. Fruits can be of variable size, but generally range 3-6" long. Fruits may weigh up to several pounds. One of the best Annona's, often having a fruitier flavor than the cherimoya. Fruits tend to be about the size of a sugar apple, often have knobby, green skin, and a custard-like flesh. Fruits may turn slightly yellow when ripe. Atemoya's are high in vitamin C. It is believed that this hybrid was first crossed by horticulturists P.J. Wester of Florida then planted the seeds in the Philippines in 1911 in Bataan.
	Common Name: Avocado Botanical Name: Persea Americana Family: Sapotaceae Origin: Southern Mexico Plant Size: Medium to Large Varieties: Cardinal, Calma, Morado, Parker, Verde Grande Season: May - August is the harvest season Description: Avocado has a flesh entirely pale to rich-yellow buttery and bland or nutlike in flavor. Philippines mostly grows West-Indian varieties of Avocado. In the Philippines, purple fruited Avocados are much preferred than green fruited ones.
	Common Name: Chokanan Mango Botanical Name: Mangifera Indica Family: Anacardiaceae Origin: Thailand Plant Size: Medium Varieties: Chokanan or Christmas Mango Season: April-Jun, September-December Description: CHOKANAN MANGO is one of the most popular varieties grown in Malaysia for local and export market. It is one of the sweetest mangoes in the world and its average weight is 0.5 kilo per fruit. It is also a favorite for eating as green mango because it is not sour. Another good characteristic is that it does not easily spoil. It has thick skin so the fruit shelf life is longer and resistant to attack of fruit fly. The chokanan mango can tolerate adverse weather conditions that even without spraying insecticide and fungicide the flowers will develop into quality eating green and sweet fruits that taste like honey. Another desirable characteristic of the Chokanan is that it will bear fruit even during the rainy season.
	Common Name: Golden Queen Mango Botanical Name: Mangifera Indica Family: Anacardiaceae Origin: Taiwan Plant Size: Large Varieties: Golden Queen or Jin-huang Mango Season: April-June Description: The Jinhuang mango was fostered by Mr. Huang Jin-huang of nearby Liouguei and is known as the “King of Mangoes“. The big fruit is papaya-shaped and weighs about 1.2 kilograms, has a thin pit, fragrant taste, high degree of sweetness and lacks fiber, making it one of the most popular fruits. The season for Jinhuang mango is May to August; during this period the quality of is the best. One should choose the fruit with orange to yellow-green color. Fruit farmers will pick the harvest in advance when they are close to mature, and accelerate the ripening after selling in the market. Taoyuan Township promotes more refined agricultural skills, and every year will hold a competition with an evaluation of Jinhuang mangoes, including color, weight, sweetness, etc. Visitors should choose the Jinhuang mango, and Taoyuan Township is the best choice for quality!
	Common Name: Guava Botanical Name: Psidium Guajava Family: Myrtaceae Origin: Mexico Plant Size: Small to Medium Varieties: Thailand, Pink Season: July-September Description: Guapple is a non-seasonal or everbearing variety with an extra large size fruit which attracts some people from Negros province. It weighs an average of 400 to 1,000 grams per fruit. It produces thick and white-freshed fruit but with bland taste. However, this variety is crispy in flesh texture. The tree excels most other fruit trees in productivity, hardness and adaptability. Its tree type is relatively spreading in growth habit with four-angled branches, leaves are opposite, oblong to elliptical in shape with pointed apex and base which are usually rounded and light green in color. This variety was collected from Thailand.
	Common Name: Makopa or Malay Apple Botanical Name: Myrtaceae Family: Myrtaceae Origin: Malaysia Plant Size: Small Varieties: Green, Maroon, White, Red Season: May-July Description: The Malay apple is a medium sized tree, growing up to 60' tall. Although not indigenous to Suriname, pomerac as it is called in this country, is growing abundantly. The evergreen leaves are opposite, soft leathery and dark green: the flowers are purplish - red and form a carpet after falling under the tree. The fruit is oblong - to pear shaped with a dark red skin and white flesh; sometimes it is seedless.
	Common Name: Mallika Mango Botanical Name: Mangifera Indica Family: Anacardiaceae Origin: India Plant Size: Medium Varieties: Mallika Season: June-July Description: ‘Mallika’ is a hybrid between 'Neelum' and 'Dasheri', and is considered among the best of the new generation of Indian dessert mangos. The bright yellow fruit are a flattened oblong shape, with a rounded base and an irregular, non-waxy skin, and weigh from 10 to 18 oz. When properly ripened, the pasty, but completely fiber-free flesh is a deep orange, with an intensely sweet, rich and highly aromatic flavor with hints of citrus and melon. 'Mallika' fruit are harvested mature-green, before they break color on the tree and should be stored at a temperature of not less than 70°F for 2 to 3 weeks for proper ripening. In this manner their ultimate eating quality will be achieved. The fruit can be refrigerated after complete ripening, but not before. Although best consumed out-of-hand, 'Mallika' also excels in juices and as dehydrated slices, with a distinctive honey flavor. ‘Mallika’ receives accolades for flavor among chefs and participants in the Fairchild International Mango Festival. The fruiting season is from late June to July. The tree is semi-dwarf and moderately vigorous, making it attractive to mango growers outside of India, who are always looking for new niche markets around the world.
	Common Name: R2E2 Mango Botanical Name: Mangifera Indica Family: Anacardiaceae Origin: Australia Plant Size: Large Varieties: R2E2 Season: April-June Description: R2E2 is a mid-season variety with large, highly-coloured fruit. It was selected in 1982 by Ian Bally, Ross Wright and Peter Beal as a seedling progeny of the Florida variety Kent, and takes its name from the row and position in the field of the original tree at DPI&F's Bowen Research Station. Released for commercial production in 1991, R2E2 has gained wide acceptance throughout all mango growing regions in Australia and is now the second most popular variety grown. R2E2 has a long shelf life and is sought-after on the export market.
	Common Name: Santol Botanical Name: Sandoricum koetjape Family: Meliaceae Origin: Malaysia Plant Size: Large Varieties: Kratoon (Bangkok) Season: June-August Description: Large, fast-growing tree from 50-150ft tall. Leaves are arranged in leaflets of three. There are two main varieties of santol: red and yellow. The leaves of the yellow variety turn yellow when old and the fruits are often sweet. In the red variety, the underside of the leaves turn red when old, the leaves themselves are velvety underneath, and the fruit has a thicker rind, less pulp, and is typically sour. There are excellent varieties of both.