That makes sense. Thanks. I'll have a look at that list.
That could be it! Have you compared the different Leonia species native to SE Ecuador in order to rule out the others? It seems that multiple exist in the same area, but I can't find photos of all of them...
EDIT: Oops, posted the same comment twice.
Definitely not.
Similar, but the fruit is green when ripe, and the pulp is always that bright orange colour, and Genipa americana wouldn't be growing wild where my friend lives, and even if it were, it would be a big tree.
I don't know who "owns" the land, but no humans live there. They haven't planted the grass yet, but that seems most likely since that's what people do around here. The grass would most likely be for cattle pasture, though some people also plant maize for pig/chicken feed for a year or two before converting to pasture.
Medium-small tree. I thought that I had photos of the leaves as well, but I can't find them now.
Seeds about the size and colour of jackfruit seeds but more flattened, so something like small/dry fava beans (though not quite that flat).
Do you mean Caryocar brasiliense? It's definitely not that.
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I recently received seeds of a strange funky fruit from a friend in the Amazon. We have no idea what it is, and Jim West can't tell from the photos that my friend sent to him either. There was a delay in getting the seeds here, but I stuck them in some soil two days ago, and they are already starting to sprout, so they seem like survivors!
It's a medium-small tree that fruits in February/March at ~800m elevation in SE Ecuador. If anyone knows what it is, please don't hesitate to comment.
I recently received seeds of a strange funky fruit from a friend in the Amazon. We have no idea what it is, and Jim West can't tell from the photos that my friend sent to him either. There was a delay in getting the seeds here, but I stuck them in some soil two days ago, and they are already starting to sprout, so they seem like survivors!
It's a medium-small tree that fruits in February/March at ~800m elevation in SE Ecuador. If anyone knows what it is, please don't hesitate to comment.
I had planted various fruit trees in the gaps of a nearby secondary forest that had been logged over years ago, and they were really growing well. Mainly jackfruit, engkala, pulasan, and a few smaller native fruit trees and shrubs where there wasn't as much space. Yesterday some people came and clear-cut that entire patch of forest (probably to plant grass), and there is now no sign that the fruit trees were ever there. The birds who used to perch in the trees over there seem very upset. Fortunately whoever cut down the forest hasn't been able to burn it yet due to all the rain, but it's only a matter of time.
I harvested 5 big jackfruits yesterday though, and I also recently received seeds of a strange funky fruit from a friend in the Amazon. We have no idea what it is, and Jim West can't tell from the photos that my friend sent to him either. There was a delay in getting the seeds here, but I stuck them in some soil two days ago, and they are already starting to sprout, so they seem like survivors!
If anyone knows what this is, please don't hesitate to comment.
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As governments and corporations scramble to meet climate pledges, the search for reliable and scalable carbon removal strategies has turned increasingly toward forests. But while tree planting captures the public imagination, a new study suggests a simpler, less costly strategy may deliver better results: Protecting young secondary forests already on the landscape.
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As governments and corporations scramble to meet climate pledges, the search for reliable and scalable carbon removal strategies has turned increasingly toward forests. But while tree planting captures the public imagination, a new study suggests a simpler, less costly strategy may deliver better results: Protecting young secondary forests already on the landscape.
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I can't find the photos of the leaves now, but they were fairly long, either elliptic or oblong.