rubber VINE

[namdocmai]

https://www.google.nl/search?newwindow=1&es_sm=122&biw=1242&bih=585&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=willughbeia&oq=willugh&gs_l=img.1.1.0i19l3.10445.13340.0.16185.7.7.0.0.0.0.124.798.0j7.7.0....0...1c.1.58.img..0.7.795.m0D0Y3WXqd0

Rubber vines grow in SE Asia, also in Thailand but i can't find them.

They produce rubber but also very nice fruits like on the pics.

Who has seen one of those growing in Thailand?? And are they really nice?

I read they can taste like orange sherbert and should be great for eating out of hand.

All info is welcome.

[Mosha]

If it's this one it's a pest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptostegia_grandiflora

[namdocmai]

If it's this one it's a pest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptostegia_grandiflora

No it is not this one, my friends in Australia said it doesn't grow there and they are fruit-experts. But there are many different variety's in the Willughbeia family.

In the wild they can totally overgrow a tree and get huge. They grow in SE Asia, Borneo has many and Africa has it's own variety's.

They are sure not all good and sweet but i 'm after the best variety's and probably that will have to come from Borneo which is fine, people are on the hunt for them there as well.

This fruit has a good potential for commercial growing but first we need the right variety. They are in Thailand but i don't know where. Fruits can be 1kg each for big ones. The problem is on Borneo they have many local names. For Africa i don't know but probably also there people use local names. This vine was also used to produce latex for rubber.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willughbeia

Edited November 9, 2014 by namdocmai