In my vox populi , the best fruit are tropical fruit .
Mango , mamey Pouteria zapota , umber pudding fruit , jaboticaba , pineapple , jackfruit , avocado tree , key calcium hydrate … the Torrid Zone has the best of the best .
I may be somewhat prejudiced , however , by the fact that I ’m allergic to most temperate fruit . I ca n’t use up bleak Malus pumila , cherry , pears , mulberry , peaches , plum , strawberries , blackberries or even Ficus carica .
No kidding .
It ’s been a root of great irritation that I ’m a garden writer and food forest designer who is hypersensitized to many of the trees I get it on to grow . They wo n’t kill me , but they do cause a destiny of painful sensation and itch in my mouth , pharynx and chest if I ingest them .
Fortunately , I ’m only allergic to a couple of tropical yield . Jackfruit is unhappily one of them , but that ’s likely because it ’s colligate to figs and mulberry .
Fruits of Warm Climates
But – my stupid allergy apart – if you ’re interested in grow the many beautiful fruit of the tropics , there is no better resource than Julia F. Morton ’s bookFruits of Warm Climates .
That ’s the back of the newer edition . I have the sure-enough one , though , and like that underwrite much well .
No matter which rendering you get , the book is a hoarded wealth . It ’s filled with illustrations and variety . You ’ll get together fruit you never knew existed . Like wax apple ! You ’ll see my copy ofFruits of Warm Climatesin this picture :
Because this book is expensive , it took me some time to pull the trigger on buying my own copy . Now I ’m happy I did . It ’s a great big handsome account book and though Julia Morton died over a decade ago , her writing and personality be on through her words and exuberance for some of the more beautiful fruit trees in the world .
fruit of Warm Climates is one of the good horticulture books you ’ll ever own . Even if you ’re not in the Torrid Zone , this Quran will make you dream !
