Any one heard of this. I obtained some of these on a free seed exchange here in Hawaii. Small tan fruit about the size of a cherry.. I was told they are from China and the tree is similar to a coffee tree . fruit are tart but nice. After googling this fruit with no results except that the name had other not so nice meanings in Chinese I am even wondering if the name is right. Anybody know about this fruit...
gopi fruit ?
Could it possibly be that you have goji fruit?
http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2007-02-27/rosenberg-gojiberries.html
No it is not Gogi which are a long chili pepper shape.....these are round cherry shape fruit. Any other guesses. Maybe I will have to get my more tech savy kids to take a picture of them and put it up here for me.
stellamarina,
I think you are thinking of the little fruit called "Goji Berry" Here is a Site as such to you descrided to a T and the Country of Oragin to where you say it came from .
http://www.antioxidant-fruits.com/goji-fruit.html
Sarge
Small tan fruit about the size of a cherry.
I am wondering if this is Longan Lychee.
Longan
Dimocarpus longan Lour.
Euphoria longan Steud.
Euphoria longana Lam.
Nephelium longana Cambess.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/longan.html#Description
Check out this website. It have a description of the Longon and photos.
No...thanks for trying to help but it is not them.....too bad as they would be a great thing to have in the garden.....this fruit is round like a cherry but the skin is yellow tan looking. Inside is a clearish white flesh with a couple of little apple pip size green seeds.
Maybe it is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansium_domesticum
No not a longan ....seed is too different. Thanks for trying . I think flabotany may be on the right track though....everything sounds like a Langsat except that the fruit are not so big....maybe the size of a grape rather than a golf ball....and they hang in big but looser bunches of about 40 fruit on the branch I got. Leaves and rest of description sounds right though so this may well be a cousin of the plant showed in wikipedia. Thank you flabotany. Maybe somebody in Hawaii will have seen it growing here. aloha
Lansium domesticum is called Lansones in the Philippines. The fruits come in bunches, like grapes; the skin is smooth and buttery yellow; the fruit is similar in size and shape to a big grape; but the flesh is composed of 5 or 6 lobes, and only one or two of them will have fully developed seeds. The succulent flesh is translucent, similar to longan flesh. It is sour to sweet, with fully ripe ones being very sweet and highly prized. As kids we had to learn to bite the flesh around the big green seed without so much as scraping the seed, which is extremely bitter. The trees I've seen are around 25 feet tall but they probably grow taller with no pruning. Wikipedia says they are endemic to Southeast Asia, but they are not widely distributed. I have seen fruit-bearing trees only in some towns of Laguna province, south of Metro Manila. They are also grown in certain areas of Mindanao. You'll find plenty of pics if you Google Lansones.
AL
Any photos? Fruit and / or seeds.
Was that the KYFA seed exchange. Do you remember who you got the seed / fruit from?
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Was the skin of the fruit smooth and glossy, or was it fuzzy?
Thanks Alileo. I think you have cleared up the mystery as your discription fits them to a T. I guess it was a local Filipino who is growing it here in Hawaii who brought the sprays of fruit to a gardening conference in Waimanalo on Oahu a few months ago. They were on the free exchange table. Thanks to Davesgarden for linking us up with gardeners all over the world. I had actually forgotten about the fruit as a bit of time has passed since I had them. The fruit were smooth, Dave. and not so big and clumped as the photo on wikipedia but Alileo describes them right. I think in the end I did not try and grow the seed as the tree seemed too big a type for small gardens. aloha