Desaru Fruit Farm I

We continued our drive and soon reached the fruit farm.

Entrance to the fruit farm. Photo taken from inside the car as we drove straight into the main building.

 

Entrance fees...

The first thing that greats you

Photos of celebrities who had visited the farm plastered on the shop window.

We bought tickets for the farm tour and started on the tour. Each group (min 4 to form a group) will be assigned a guide. This is the "truck" that brought us to the starting point of the tour.

Unfortunately our guide told us that the fruiting seasons are usually between April - June and November - December each year, so we would not be able to see fruits on some of the plants. Nonetheless, we saw and learned a great deal.

Here are some of the plants / trees we saw

Left: Dragonfruit

Right: Dragonfruit flower

Left: Gigantic Jackfruit

Right: Tree full of jackfruits of all sizes. Some young jackfruits withered early and didn't have a chance to grow up.

Left: Breadfruit Tree. Breadfruit is a flowering free from the mulberry family (same family as jackfruit). It has both male and female fruits on the same tree but only the female flower grows into fruit.

Right: My favourite plant in the whole plantation because I love the name - Buah Long Long!!! The fruit of the buahlonglong plant is small and oval shaped, is a little bit sourish and tastes absolutely fantastic with plum powder! Can anyone tell me where to get buahlonglong in Singapore??

 

Left: Variety of bananas with a flower that points upwards (most banana flower points downwards), unfortunately the flower is blocked in this photo.

Middle: Rare banana tree with 2 bunches of bananas (I never know most, if not all banana trees only give a single bunch of bananas per tree, so this is unusual)

Right: Very rare banana tree with 3 bunches of bananas.

 

Left: I was so caught by surprise by this variety of banana. Its called the "Thousand Fingers" banana. As the name implied, this variety can produce up to 1000 bananas, and will continue to produce fruits until the stalk reaches the ground. According to the guide, the fruit is not edible.

Right: Another variety of banana.

Left: Pomelo plant

Right: Mini guava waiting to grow up. Guava leaves are very sweet smiling.

to be continued......