Barbados Cherry relative..

Well done!

Thanks. This can have small edible fruit. Little red berries after red flowers. That's the hard part as it loves tropical warmth. Not that here.

Is it Pereskia grandiflora? I've killed mine. lol! It's so funny because they can grow to a big tree here in the ground.

P.aculeata v. godseffiana. The all green form is a shrub...this is so much slower growing. In warmer climes- or indoor/greenhouse it will flower and make a little berry.

I got it finally on growing this plant. I've had it since 2004.
It would love soucal..since it doesn't take much frost. After 2014's big cold...it was down to roots. Other years in the 2000's it died back from too much rain.
My goal now is too get the whole enchilada...blooms,fruits,and a nice large plant with that unusual color.

It's so funny...originally I put P. aculeata and then changed it! :>/

I got this form from a friend and it died! I over watered it. Yikes! It doesn't like a lot of water. Of course, belonging to the Cactaceae family.

I've seen this plant thrive by a sunny window for those in colder climates. Ironic that it will also flowering in the warm nights of a home easy enough.
Here I am,not knowing if it will do the same even under warmest (60F) bay area summer nights. I've only seen it flower one summer. That was a warm one as I recall. Maybe by September it will surprise me. This for sure is the largest its ever been. That should help.

I've seen this plant flowers many times. I don't think I've seen the fruit on this one, though.

No,not this one Andy..the all green yes,and the many other species do have great looking blooms..the P.arborea especially.
But i looked at a lot of Google images and not one had showed the variegated in bloom.
I think somewhere from a decade ago I posted on growingontheedge mine with a couple of blooms.
I think that it had been just removed that summer from a greenhouse and had the residual warmth still in its metabolism.
Its never bloomed since and with temps May- now being 75-90f most days it still hasn't a bud on it.
Its been so long I cant even be sure what the color was. I thought red...but the all green has white flowers with orange pistils in google images.
btw- Mango and Coffee going like gangsters! My wife noticed the coffee..never had to tell her.

I know my friend had this variety in North Park. It was flowering; however, never saw any fruit on it. He had so many that he started from cuttings. This is where I got mine from. I'll have to see if he ever got fruit off his plants. Some where large and old. He also had lots of Pandanus ultilis in his yard. He also started large cuttings and has many. They had fruit. He would say how very fast they would grow. I need to start taking more photos.

Speaking of mangoes: I can't believe how many mangoes the trees here have. They are so loaded like in Hawaii.

I still not sure what on P. a.g. would look like larger. One photo on the net shows it taller then wide and leaning on a tree trunk. In a hot climate it might climb.

I planted the "Champagne" Mango i started from seed 2 and a half years ago. I had to dig up a couple of cacti to do it. They will make nice potted plants.
I heard that its been a great year for Mango down south..bad in soufla. Or,what THEY call bad. That means it cant be too bad.

I'll have to get some photos of P. a.g.

That's great more mangoes up north. That's one of the best varieties for the Bay Area. It should do very well.

Last year was an excellent year for mangoes! It was because of the dry and hot weather in winter. This year it's because February had virtually no rain with many record high temps (the hottest February on record for San Diego). Mango trees need dry and warm for their flower productive and fruit set. This is why another excellent year for mangoes here in southern California. From what I remember it was wet in most of Florida. Wet is really bad for fruit set on mango trees.

The mangoes will be ripening like last year, most likely in early to mid-July/early August instead of late August through October. Last year I saw on Palm Talk some people had mangoes as early as June...which is pretty much unheard in San Diego.

Another year that was so excellent for mango trees in San Diego was back in winter of 2002/2003 when we only received 3.5 inches of rain...I believe it was the second or third driest winter on record. I saw the mango trees flowering in the first week of January.

Andy what Mangoes right now are tasting the best? Manila- Yellow types?- are those as large a tree as the Haden and Atkins?
The Fremont now that I think of it,is the only large yellow fruited Mango tree in California on the net. I've seen photos of big 30'+ tree in Mexico's Yucatan...but all the big California trees on the net are red-green or with purple fruits.

There's so many varieties of mangoes which grow here. I just took some photos today of some mango trees. The one which I posted back in February which had the millions of flowers is flowering again and flushing growth. I couldn't believe how large the fruits are on the tree, some look like they are almost ready to be picked. It was difficult to get a close up of the mangoes. There's many mango trees in that area. I took a pic of the tall but much more slender, younger mango tree across from the large one. The fruits were big on that tree, also.

I'm going to post the pics tonight. I hope they came out well! I haven't looked at them, yet.