My tropical rare fruit tree nursery, central to
Govardhan Gardens, is aiming at providing you the widest possible
selection of fruit trees that grow in the Tropics.
It carries the most
diversified selection in the Caribbean, including many exotic and
rare specimens. You can choose from over 200 tropical fruit and nut
species, but customized, large orders require several months of
preparation.
All trees are
eco-organically grown, mostly in bioactive compost and healthy
soils. The prices listed below refer to the smallest sizes (1-2
years old). Medium-sized trees are between 2 and 4 years old. Large
trees are usually between 4 and 8 years old.
As of recently, I am mostly designing and
planting out entire fruit orchards in Puerto Rico, and my time for
retail sales at my nursery is very limited. If you want to visit the
nursery, please give me sufficient notice for an
appointment.
I am happy to share all the fruit pictures in
higher resolutions as long as there is an acknowledgment and they
are not used for commercial purpose.
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NISPERO |
FRUIT
FACTS SHEET |
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Common Name:
Nispero, Sapodilla, Chikoo |
| Botanical Name:
Manilkara zapota |
| Max Size: 50 FT |
| Time To Fruit:
3-6 Years |
| Availability:
All Year |
| Price - small
size :
$15.00 |
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Ordering Information |
Fruit
Description
Fruit has a very wide appeal; eaten fresh
or used on desserts. |
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NONI |
FRUIT
FACTS SHEET |
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Common Name:
Noni |
| Botanical Name:
Morinda
citrifolia |
| Max Size: 25
FT |
| Time To Fruit: 1-2
Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size
: $12.00 |
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Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Highly valued exotic Polynesian
medicinal fruit; boosts immune
system.
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| NUTMEG |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Nutmeg |
| Botanical Name: Myristica
fragrans |
| Max Size: 40
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
6-10 Years |
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Availability: Limited Stock, available after October 2011 |
| Price - small size
: $25.00 |
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Ordering
Information |
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Fruit
Description
This tree is
the source of nutmeg
(seed) and mace (aril). Very slow growing tree that does
best in humid, tropical lowland. Nutmeg is used as a
brain tonic, to relieve pain, for indigestion, to
increase blood circulation, as a heart and liver tonic, and to dissolve kidney stones.
Dioecious.
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| OKARI NUT |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name: Okari Nut
|
| Botanical Name:
Termanalia
kaernbachii |
| Max Size: 45
FT |
| Time To Fruit: 4-6
Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price -
small size: Inquire |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
A relative of the tropical almond;
about three to four times the size of the regular tropical almond (almendra)
and superior flavor. Available grafted or grown from
seed. | |
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OLOSAPO |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common
Name: Olosapo |
| Botanical Name:
Couepia polyandra |
| Max Size: 20
FT |
| Time To Fruit: 5-7
Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size
: $25.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Tasty relative of the more
common canistel; the cultivar grown at Govardhan Gardens
has a natural rum flavor; excellent for ice creams and
milk shakes. | |
| PARADISE
NUT |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Paradise Nut |
| Botanical Name:
Lecythis
elliptica |
| Max Size: 40
FT |
| Time To Fruit: 5-7
Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size
: $15.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Tasty
nut which comes in an attractive, usable
capsule.
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| PASSION FRUIT |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Passion Fruit |
| Botanical Name:
Passiflora
edulis |
| Max Size:
vine |
| Time To Fruit:
6-18 months |
| Availability: Limited
Stock |
| Price - small size
: $3.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Lowers blood pressure, ideal for
refreshing
drinks. | |
| PEDALAI |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Pedalai
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Botanical Name : Artocarpus
seriricarpus |
| Max Size: 30 FT |
| Time To Fruit: 6-8
Years |
| Availability: Limited
Stock |
| Price - small
size : $25.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
A rare and delicious fruit from
Borneo; both, the flesh and the seeds have an exquisite
flavor. | |
| PITANGATUBA |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Pitangatuba |
| Botanical Name:
Eugenia
neonitida |
| Max Size: 8
FT |
| Time To Fruit: 2-4
Years |
| Availability:
Limited Stock |
| Price - small size
: $22.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Tasty and aromatic yellow fruit that
looks like a giant Surinam cherry or small
carambola. | |
| PITOMBA |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Pitomba |
| Botanical
Name: Eugenia
luschnathiana |
| Max Size: 20
FT |
| Time To Fruit: 3-5
Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size : $20.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Small fruit with sweet to subacid
pleasant taste. | |
| POSH-TE |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common
Name:
Posh-te |
| Botanical Name:
Annona scleroderma |
| Max Size: 40 FT |
| Time To Fruit: 4-6
Years |
| Availability: Limited |
| Price - small size : $25.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Popular in Guatemala;
unique bitter-sweet flavor, fast grower. The
first posh-te trees that fruited at my farm had an
exceptional fruit quality, comparable to the best
annonaceous fruits I've ever had.
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| PULASAN |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Pulasan |
| Botanical Name: Nephelium
mutabile |
| Max Size: 25
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
5-7 Years |
| Availability:
Limited Stock |
| Price - small size : $18.00 |
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Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
One of the most
delicious tropical fruits existing, sweet, juicy and
very pleasantly aromatic. Grafted trees have to be
pre-ordered. | |
| QUENEPA, SPANISH LIME |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name: Quenepa, Spanish
Lime |
| Botanical Name:
Melicoccus bijugatus |
| Max Size: 45 FT |
| Time To Fruit: 5-8
Years |
| Availability: Most of the
time |
| Price - small size : $20.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Pulp of locally very
popular fruit; is juicy, aromatic, sweet with a pleasant
acid flavor. Grafted trees of different varieties have
to be pre-ordered. | |
| RAMBAI |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Rambai |
| Botanical Name: Baccaurea
motleyana |
| Max Size: 35
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
5-7 Years |
| Availability:
Limited Stock |
| Price - small size : $25.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Sweet-sour tasty
fruit that comes in small clusters; Rambai is eaten
fresh, stewed or in preserves and is also used for
vinegar and various beverages;
dioecious. | |
| RAMBUTAN |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Rambutan |
| Botanical Name: Nephelium
lappaceum |
| Max Size: 35
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
4-5 Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size : Inquire |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Also known as "hairy Lychee" and
considered one of the best tropical fruits; grafted
varieties available but they have to be
pre-ordered. | |
| RASPBERRY MYSORE |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Mysore raspberry |
| Botanical Name: Rubus
albescens |
| Max Size:
Cane |
| Time To Fruit:
1-2 Years |
| Availability:
Limited stock |
| Price - small size : $10.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Tasty tropical black raspberry with
several crops per year.
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| REDAN |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Redan |
| Botanical Name: Aglaia
tomentosa |
| Max Size: 20
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
4-6 Years |
| Availability:
Limited Stock |
| Price - small size : $28.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Sweet and
juicy lychee-like Borneo fruit; rare.
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| SALAK |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Salak |
| Botanical Name: Salacca
edulis |
| Max Size: 12
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
4-6 Years |
| Availability:
Limited Stock |
| Price - small size : $16.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Crunchy, tasty palm fruit that
comes in many different flavors; some of the more
popular flavors remind of pineapple, apple, banana, or
mamey. Its fruits are considered to be one of the
best palm fruits for eating out of hand. The
nursery plants are monoecious but turn dioecious if
planted close by dioecious types. My personal favorite
type has a pure berry flavor and I started to propagate
it in 2011.
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| SANSAPOTE |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Sansapote |
| Botanical Name: Licania
platypus |
| Max Size: 30
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
6-9 Years |
| Availability:
Limited stock |
| Price - small size : $25.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
A
large, unique looking fruit that develops over several
months. Good cultivars are very pleasantly sweet,
reminding somewhat of pumpkin. Since there are
wild types with lesser quality, the fruit is hardly
known and underrated. The tree itself is very
ornamental and has a beautiful crown.
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| SAPOTE, BLACK |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Black Sapote |
| Botanical Name: Diospyros
digyna |
| Max Size: 45
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
5-8 Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size : $14.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Popular in South America; known as
chocolate pudding fruit in English; when frozen tastes
just like chocolate
ice-cream. |
| SEASHORE MANGOSTEEN |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Seashore Mangosteen, Wild Mangosteen |
| Botanical Name: Garcinia
hombroniana |
| Max Size: 30
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
6-8 Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size : $25.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Close relative of G. mangostana with similarly
intriguing flavor but more subacid. Adapts well to a
variety of soil and micro
climates. | |
| SURINAM CHERRY |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Surinam Cherry |
| Botanical Name: Eugenia
uniflora |
| Max Size: 25
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
2-3 Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size : $10.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Seedlings are from high quality
cultivars; the fruit is sweet, aromatic or
sub-acid. | |
| TAHITIAN CHESTNUT |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name: Tahitian
Chestnut |
| Botanical Name: Inocarpus
edulis |
| Max Size: 25
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
6-8 Years |
| Availability:
Limited Stock |
| Price - small size : $25.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
The leaves
and bark of this tree have medicinal uses; the seed
kernels are only edible when cooked; staple food in some
of the Pacific islands. | |
| TAMARIND |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name: Tamarind |
| Botanical Name: Tamarindus
indicus |
| Max Size: 70
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
3-4 Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size : $10.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Acidic fruit is used for chutneys,
refreshing
drinks. | |
| TAMARIND, SPANISH |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Spanish Tamarind |
| Botanical Name: Vangueria
edulis |
| Max Size: 45
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
4-6 Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size : $12.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Tastes like a
combination of unripe apples and tamarind; sweet or
sweet-sour cultivars. |
| TAMPOI |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Tampoi |
| Botanical Name: Baccaurea
macrocarpa |
| Max Size: 30
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
5-8 Years |
| Availability:
Sold out |
| Price - small size : Inquire |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Good tampoi cultivars are still
very rare outside of Borneo but amongst the most
delicious tropical fruits existing. The appearance of a
fruiting tree is spectacular, with the fruits emerging
from the trunk and larger branches. It’s a
good-sized fruit and the flavor is pleasantly
sweet-sour.
Dioecious. | |
| UVAIA |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Uvaia |
| Botanical Name: Eugenia
pyriformis |
| Max Size: 15
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
3-5 Years |
| Availability:
Limited Stock |
| Price - small size : $18.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
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Fruit
Description
Sweet,
aromatic and fragrant fruit with tart flavor. Uvaia
juice is produced commercially in
Brazil. | |
| UVALHA |
FRUIT FACTS
SHEET |
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Common Name:
Uvalha |
| Botanical Name: Eugenia
uvalha |
| Max Size: 18
FT |
| Time To Fruit:
2-3 Years |
| Availability: All
Year |
| Price - small size : $15.00 |
|
Ordering
Information |
Fruit
Description
Acidic and aromatic fruit is mostly
used to make refreshing
drinks. | |
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Sadhu Govardhan is an independent
thinker, eco-organic farmer, tropical rare fruit connoisseur
and researcher. Extensive journeys for over twenty years have
allowed him to study indigenous cultures and different life
styles throughout the world.
I would like to extend a heartfelt thanks
to everyone who has helped out this project over the years.
Even if I can't acknowledge all of you individually since so
many people have supported Govardhan Gardens in so many ways,
I certainly remember every one of you. 
