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Lanzones Lansium domesticum
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Posted by paradisi Sunshine Coast (My Page) on Thu, Jan 26, 06 at 16:17
| Is anyone growing lanzones on garden web?
what are the temperature requirements?? |
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RE: Lanzones Lansium domesticum
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| yes I am growing two in Redlands east of Brisbane. They are a tropical tree and provide good shade and are good looking evergreens. They grow I reckon only above the frost line in the true tropics but I have not researched them. Mine are 5 years old, about 4 m high and 4 m wide. They produced fruit last year but the flying foxes beat me to most of them since they fruit like litchis and are easily seen on the top by me at least. My sense of smell of ripening does not compete with a Ff. My juvenile fruits were about half the size (10mm diameter) as those marketed in the Philippines.
I purchased the seedlings randomly from some forgettable petrol Station near Caboolture north of Brisbane. They are easy to grow like most tropical fruit trees in the tropics & warm sub tropics but these don't seem to have any pests - yet. |
RE: Lanzones Lansium domesticum
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Can anyone help me with where I can buy this fruit tree
I live in Deception bay Brisbane Australia
thanks |
RE: Lanzones Lansium domesticum
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sweeney, there are 2 recognised varieties of Lansium domesticum, known in the Malay(Indonesian, Philipino) world as langsat and duku - duku is the larger and is a more attractive tree, langsat being more straggley. Langsat also has a milky sap in the fruit skins.
Neither variety is partial to cooler,ie subtropical climates. Some say the generic name should be Aglaia rather than Lansium. Having said that, I wouldn't mind trying them myself in Briz, if you can spare some seeds.
Tony
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RE: Lanzones Lansium domesticum
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| Hi sweeney, Maybe these time you already have some Lanzones seedlings. I'm really interested if you're selling them. Please email if you have some.Thanks. |
RE: Lanzones Lansium domesticum
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| Hi Sweeney, as all the people love lanzones my wife is one of them and I am looking for a tree or seedling to surprise her. Please let me know if you can spare me some seedling. Thanks! |
RE: Lanzones Lansium domesticum
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Apologies, no Lanzones!
I have just come back to this string after 4 years absence.
1. The Lanzones turned out to be Longans which you can get at some Nurseries. Even for the Longans I was not able to beat the rabies driven local flying foxes to the fruit.I gave up. As I did with Lychees. I cut them out and replaced with a Jakfruit and flowering climbers on a trellis. Flying foxes here carry a rabies virus named lyssa (Gk = violent) or Hendra virus. I find SEQld flying foxes, Pteropus spp. an unacceptable disease risk. They will eventually need heavy culling where they roost. Don't confuse them with much more useful echo locating bats. |
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