inaturalist grievance #67 of 95

 

fruit of thai constellation monstera deliciosa

 pollinated with pollen from albo mostera...

only eat the portion under the green scales that easily fall off.  otherwise it's very painful to eat, like eating fiberglass.  

very delicious, like banana and pineapple, and seemed more delicious than the 2nd fruit, which i didn't pollinate and was seedless.  

how the seedlings turned out.

florida

10 acre orange grove in central florida

month later update on one of my ficus opposita x carica seedlings i shared with a friend in central florida...

in other fig news, i successfully grafted a ficus auriculata branchlet onto an auriculata in a 5 gallon pot...

more crazy ficus grafting

ficus interspecific grafting holy grail olympics

exploring systematic biases, rooting methods and morphological evidence to unravel the evolutionary history of the genus ficus (moraceae) - rasplus et al