Euterpe edulis "Reserva" fruiting for the 2nd year

[Alberto]

Nine years ago I found Euterpe edulis growing in the municipality of Reserva, located +- in 100 km in straight line from here. I found them growing in araucaria forest at 850 m altitude. I collected seeds and obtained a lot of seedlings. All this survived fine here and only a few were killed by a severe frost some years ago that killed my big Chamaedorea costaricana plants.Three of them are flowering for the second year now. I noted that the real fast growers were the ones that are growing near the house were all the rain water from the roof flows. So it needs tons of water to grow fast!

Original post of the trip:  http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/2078-trip-to-seek-after-the-hardier-euterpe-edulis/#comment-34177

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/2045-trip-to-central-paraná/#comment-33348

Edited October 14, 2015 by Alberto

[Alberto]

Phone cell pics of the fruiting Euterpe edulis

Edited October 14, 2015 by Alberto

[Cluster]

Thank you for all the threads! Euterpes are all very beautiful. I tried to see the pictures from your trip but unfortunately the site no longer holds your journey:(. Regardless I am happy to see some of your pictures here, they did grow quite a lot during these last years! 

Did you see Edulis with drooping leaves during your journey, like their tropical cousins? I have read that they get the droopy look once they are taller, regardless they are very beautiful.

I look forward to seeing more pictures of those Euterpes:)

Ps: Need to get myself some Euterpes, maybe Edulis normal or orange variety and Espiritosantensis.

Edited October 14, 2015 by Cluster

[Josh-O]

Did you pick any of the fruit and eat them ?

[Alberto]

I collected all the fruits and will clean them to germinate them. Yes ,I ate some. The taste is the same as açaí, and studies suggest that the amount of the good stuffs in the juçara palm (E. edulis ) is even higher then in the açaí palm.

The leaflets are droopy in old palms. Old pics of the juçara palms near Campo Mourão

[Zeeth]

Very nice! Do you ever plan to distribute seeds? I think they'd be in high demand on Palmtalk. 

[Cluster]

Those Edulis look very very good, quite similar to the more tropical cousins in that picture:).

[gilles06]

Alberto, keep me on your shipping list!

[Jeff Searle]

Love those habitat pictures! Thanks for sharing.

Jeff

[Cluster]

Alberto do you happen to have more pictures from your Euterpes or habitat ones? You will have a nice forest of Euterpes soon with all those seeds

[Josh-O]

awesome pic's especially when they are habitat pic's 

[akamu]

Super cool that they survived a frost and fruited thanks for your input I am going to be planting a green one soon I already have a triple planting of the orange crownshaft version and they  are very fast and very thirsty. Cheers it was great hanging out with you and your wife on your visit to san diego 

[edric]

Thanks a bunch Alberto, great work, Ed

[Alberto]

It' s now many years that my cultivated high altitude Euterpe edulis are thriving also at my place. If someone of you was also able to cultivate de Euterpe edulis " Reserva " collected by me in the municipality of Reserva, and which offspring was sold by RPS years ago, please show me your palms! Thanks

[Alberto]

They are trying to grow through the forest canopy and some are succeeding. The fruits are spread by birds like "tucano-de-bico-verde" and " jacús" etc

[Tomas]

Alberto, do you distribute the seeds sometimes or do you sell them to RPS? I realy would love to try this palm.

[Alberto]

 I sold them to RPS. Once I brought the seeds with me on trip to Europe.