Tamarind

[tropicbreeze]

With the recent (late) arrival of the wet season rains my Tamarinds have burst into bloom.

A fruit still hanging from the last flowering.

My tallest one is nearly 15 metres to the top, but it's growing near some other tall trees so it's stretching a bit. Most of the rest of my Tamarinds are only about a half to three quarters that size (not counting the dozens of seedlings/saplings).

[WaianaeCrider]

I planted a few for shade.  Never noticed the flowers at all and the biggest fruits all the time.  The trouble is there is some kind of bug that attacks the seed pod before they ripen and slowly  eats the seeds.  The one's that survive are so sweet.  Love chewing on them.

[tropicbreeze]

On 12/13/2023 at 5:28 PM, WaianaeCrider said:

I planted a few for shade.  Never noticed the flowers at all and the biggest fruits all the time.  The trouble is there is some kind of bug that attacks the seed pod before they ripen and slowly  eats the seeds.  The one's that survive are so sweet.  Love chewing on them.

Don't know of anything that eats them here, but generally there's a lot of moth larvae that eat legume seed, maybe one of your naturally occurring ones has developed a taste for Tamarind.

My trees were planted by the previous owner, about 60 of them, so now they're getting somewhere between 30 to 40 years old. There's lots of seedlings around so a lot seeds don't get eaten by anything.