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Fri 21 Sep, 2018 5:01 pm
Can anyone ID these fruits...Tropical Northern Qld, Ngalba Bulal NP, Cedar Bay track.
Fruit/nut from a large broad tree, where the forest meets the sea...fits in the palm of your hand, tennis ball size.
bumpy lumpy middle of the rainforest fruit/nut...
or any of these...apart from the coconut.
Sun 30 Sep, 2018 7:05 pm
Hi Ofuros,
Check out Calophyllum inophyllum for the first few photos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calophyllum_inophyllumhttp://www.northqueenslandplants.com/Au ... yllum.htmlI’ll have a look on the others, but you should be able to generate a species list here and perhaps wrok out what they are ->
https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/repo ... cies-list/Cheers
Andrew
Sun 30 Sep, 2018 7:17 pm
Bumpy lumpy fruit might be a Flindersia
http://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data ... leyana.htmLittle red fruit in the bottom pic might be an Alexandra palm (my first thought) but might not be either.
http://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data ... andrae.htmUnripe coconut on right. Ones in front could be figs? A bit hard to tell.
Sun 30 Sep, 2018 8:50 pm
Thanks for your efforts, Pteropus.
Just put in a species list request for the NP. Cheers.
Sun 30 Sep, 2018 11:48 pm
Ofuros I will email this thread to a retired DPI scientist I know up here, his speciality is tropical fruits.
Mon 01 Oct, 2018 4:38 am
Thanks very much Trekker76. Very kind of you to go out of your way.
As curious minds need to know, I also have a Aussie Rainforest fruits field guide by Wendy & William Cooper coming in the post...for future reference. It's even available as a eBook.
Mon 01 Oct, 2018 8:07 pm
No problem mate. funnily he just recommended the following. "Best reference is Cooper and Cooper Australian Rainforest Fruits. The field guide is good but I use the the main book"
Bty any chance you recall an estimate of the size of the mixed fruits in the picture and that lumpy looking green one? I will send through as well.
Mon 01 Oct, 2018 9:10 pm
Rough guesstimates...
Lumpy bumpy 20cm long
Orange foreground 4cm diameter
Green middle 10cm diameter
Deep red middle 12cm diameter
Red on left 6cm diamer
Tue 02 Oct, 2018 5:34 pm
Ofuros, best guess.
Green lumpy oblong fruit is most likely a green Flindersia seed capsule - one of the Crow’s Ash/ Queensland Maple family
Tree with green seeds - Beach Calophyllum - Calophyllum inophyllum - Toxic
Large square sided seed is a Barringtonia asiatica - Toxic
5 Orange fruit - possibly one of the Cluster figs - Ficus spp. -
Red fruit not sure- did they have a single large round seed inside the thin woody shell?
Tue 02 Oct, 2018 6:54 pm
Big thanks to you & your mate...I'll have to do a return trip & find some more strange fruit to post.
I usually dissect the fruit & see what surprise there is inside but not on this occasion.
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