In Thailand, for example, people prefer durian when it is mid-ripe. Farmers harvest the fruit by cutting it off the trees before it achieves full ripeness. It then continues to ripen on the way to ...

The jabuticaba fruit is unusual in that it appears to blossom right out of the bark and trunk of its tree. The tree may ... Asia as the "king of fruits," durian is relatively unknown in the ...

And at night, when the fragrant white blossoms ... Youqi's young durian trees - then three years old - yielded for the first time, producing around 50 tonnes of the fruit. A year later, the ...

Before the durian boom began in China, farmers sold their fruit for around 80 Thai ... In December, workers at TK Farms go from tree to tree cleaning the delicate blossoms by hand.

Not surprisingly for so valued a fruit, all parts of the durian tree are used in folk medicine. The flesh itself is regarded as an aphrodisiac. Today, even with websites devoted to durians and ...

Durian (D. zibethinus) is an edible tropical fruit endemic to Southeast Asia ... For the different ripening stages, we sourced fruiting trees in this plantation in July 2016 and isolated three ...

China’s imports of the fruit have more than doubled in the past five years, and Pizza Hut’s most popular pizza in China is now “durian pizza with cheese,” Yum China CEO Joey Wat told the ...