Dear Karl, Missed you and the Arecanut leaf-base plates/cups at the KFF this year. Hope to have them back next year.
You are almost bang on, good presence of mind to read ther name plates, too. I am adding the missing ones ..and a few Scientific names [so I can show off while helping others do a Google search for more info ;-)] ....................................................................................................... On 5/19/08, KARLNJOSEPHINE DESOUZA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Miguel > 1= Jackfruit Artocarpus integrifola > 2= Pineapple Ananas comosus > 3= Mayling Citrus medica [Citron or Mauling] > 4=Toring Citrus grandis [Pumelo or Pommelo] > 5= Cocoa Theobroma cacao > 6=Mangosteen Garcinia mangostana [Mangustao] > 7=Oil Palm Elaies guinensis > 8=Kokum Not really Velvet Apple Diospyrus ebenester > 9-Mango (Bishop as displayed!) Mangifera indica > 10= Mango [Bol] > 11= Mango(Koita as displayed)! > > But frankly I never knew 3 and 4 what exactly is it? ................................................................................................... It may be of interest to know that the word "Mangai" in Malayalam was adopted by the Portuguese to "Manga" and gave us the Latinised name "Mangifera". The Portuguese did not bring mango plants to Goa, as is the common myth:They only taught our forefathers how to do "approach" grafting so they could propagate a clone and name it as a variety. Most people put their own surnames to these new "Varieties" ...from Afonsa to Xavier [I do not know any Goan variety starting in Y or Z] 98% of Australian mangoes belong to just one variety:Kensington Pride. The USA varieties like Tommy Atkins are actually seedlings of Indian variety "Mulgoa" from Tamil Nadu. They grow from nucellar or polyembryonic seedlings which are true-to-type [like mother, like daughter] Manga Hilario is named after Hilario Fernandes, the father of our former Education Minister Raul Fernandes from Fernandes vaddo, which now boasts of a restaurant named after him in Remo's neighbourhood. The grafts are not really a single clone ...unless you get the typical red tinge of a drunk white man's face at the stalk end of the fruit. Cardoz Malcurada mango is named after Dr.Armand Batista Cardoz [now deceased] near Saldanha Trade Centre, Mapusa. The mother tree is alive. In appearance it is a Bemcorada but P.A. Matthew insisted that on organoleptic tests it was a Malcurada. It tastes good, anyway! It would be nice if each one, who has 50 sq. metres of land to spare, planted a graft of the variety that bears their surname. There is a "deSouza" variety in Maina-Siolim. Tastes like Goa Mankur found in Kudal and is bigger than the local Malcurada in size [about 250 to 300 g. fruit weight], light yellow pulp. This way, as long as the family name lives, the variety would live, too. Mog asundi. Miguel "JoeGoaUk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote: > Now, please identify these 11 fruits (write back even if you know just 6) > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2497182227/sizes/l/ > -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
