Pouteria species in the open ground in Davis, CA

 This post describes the Pouteria plants which survived multiple winters and summers in Davis, California.

My Montero Lucuma plant (Pouteria lucuma biotype Montero) was started from the seed of the tree growing at the San Diego botanical garden. Below are the pictures of the fruit from 2017.

The tree is over 8 ft now and I just noticed the first flower bud on it, the picture below.

The Montero biotype tree has short internodes with dark green leaves, the picture below.

My second Lucuma tree was started from a yellow type of Lucuma fruit in 2017 as well. This tree is now well over 10 feet and bloomed as least once already last year. I just found new flower buds on it, the picture is below.

The leaves on this tree are larger, medium green, and the internodes are longer, see the picture below.

I purchased my Canistel tree (Pouteria campechiana) as a small seedling from Ben’s Subtropicals during the Festival of Fruit in San Luis Obispo in 2016. This turned out to be the most vigorous Pouteria I have. The tree bloomed already for a number of years. Probably 10-11 feet tall now.

The fourth Pouteria I have in the ground is Cinnamon Apple, Pouteria hypoglauca. I purchased this tree in 2017 from the Roger Meyer estate. While this tree never bloomed yet, I’m still surprised that it can survive in my climate especially after the winter we just had in 2022-2023. Below is a picture of one of the branches ends. This tree is about 4 feet tall.

Harvey’s Early Yellow Peach

 A few years ago, my friend Harvey Correia discovered a large branch producing yearly peaches on his old peach tree. He purchased the tree over 25 years ago as Last Chance and recalls that he might have grafted it with Fairtime, both of which are late season peaches. The tree still produces at least one type of late peaches. I need to go back later in the season and taste those. He suspects that this branch with early yellow peaches that ripen in early June might be coming from the rootstock or could be a sport of the grafted variety. Unless we find out that this is known cultivar, we are going to call this branch Harvey’s Early Yellow peach.

The fruits are slightly flattened, medium in size, red and spotted. The flesh is yellow, melting, partially or almost freestone. The flavor is excellent with high sugar and high acid. I tend to think that it’s a Lovell seedling (the rootstock shoot). The Lovell fruits I had before were somewhat similar in the flavor, but those were ripening later in the season.

Public gardens around Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area

Sacramento State University Arboretum 

UC Davis Arboretum 

Sonoma Botanical Garden in Glen Ellen 

UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley 

Tilden Regional Park Botanic Garden in Berkeley 

Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek 

Rare Fruit Tree Grove at the Quarry Lake Regional Recreational Area in Fremont 

California Nursery Historical Park in Fremont 

Shinn Historical Park and Arboretum in Fremont 

San Francisco Botanical Garden

Emma Prusch Farm Park in San Jose 

Hakone Estate and Gardens - Japanese Gardens in Saratoga

Filoli Historic House and Garden in Woodside

UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden

Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park hosts Bonfante trees

Pollen granules of yangmei, Myrica rubra

I took the above pictures of the pollen granules on March 19, 2023. These were from the Adam selection of yangmei ( Myrica rubra ).

Cuttings sale in March 2023

 The post describes the spring sale of wood on the Really Good Plants site.

The following accessions will be available for purchase on March 5 at 5 pm PT at reallygoodplants.com

The number after each cultivar states the initial inventory.

The sale will conclude on Saturday March 11 at 5 pm.

Avocado

Aravaipa 15

Sir Prize 10

Royal-Wright 25

Surinam Cherry 

Guaruja Red 20

the scions are pencil thick or thicker.  Please specify if you need the thinner ones.

Feijoa

Candy 14

Lickver’s Pride 12

Chesterwoody 16

Den’s Choice 16

White Goose 10

Marion 13

Albert’s supreme 11

Cherimoya 

Fortuna 10

Mulberry (some buds are getting green)

Galicia 8

Shelli 10

Isfahan 10

White Sapote

Golden Globe 14

Santa Cruz 7

Malibu #3 7

Rainbow 11

Malibu #1 10

Delta Gold 15

Michelle 6

Lemon Gold 15

Cuccio 9

Leroy 9

Roberts Rainbow 19

Yangmei 

Female Eve 20

Male Adam 10

Yangmei selections Adam and Eve

 These post describes two selections of yangmei (Myrica rubra).  Adam is a vigorous male with abundant red flowers.

Eve is a mid to late season producing female with complex flavored and very juicy fruits. The fruits are a tad smaller than an average Biqi fruit.  In the picture below I have a large Biqi fruit (left) next to Eve (right).  

The seeds are also a little smaller in Eve (below right) than in Biqi (left).

I grow these accessions for three years and the grafts started blooming in 15 months. I had the fruits in the last two seasons. My grafts are on the Myrica pensilvanica rootstock. The scions of both accessions will be occasionally available at reallygoodplants.com

John Herd and Sir Prize avocados

 The post describes the first fruits I collected from the grafts of John Herd and Sir Prize avocados residing on my mature Mexicola tree. 

Sir Prize was grafted in 2016, and produced and ripened the first 5 fruits 2022-2023. It is a vigorous graft, with 5-6 feet of upright growth. However, it appears to be a shy producer. The pictures below show the second fruit harvested in January 2023.

The texture is very smooth with no fibers at all, and low oil content. The flavor is very clean, a vegetable type with no strong notes. I hope it will become more complex in the later harvested fruits. We had a very cold November- December here in the Sacramento Valley. The weather might have impacted the proper development of the fruit oils and flavors.

John Herd was grafted in 2020 and the fruit described is the first one produced just 2 years after grafting. The fruit stem was broken by a rodent in January 2023, otherwise I would keep it on the tree longer. Never the less, the fruit ripened fine on the counter in about a week. 

This fruit is pretty good flavored, a bit nutty, and with a better oil content. More complex in the flavor than my Sir Prize fruit. The texture is smooth with no fibers. This branch is lower on the tree than the Sir Prize branch and could have been exposed less to the cold masses this winter.