Every few weeks a customer tells me they want a durian that will not fight them, something rich and smooth for a first date with the fruit, and more often
Ask for durian in Kuantan and sooner or later someone presses a Beserah into your hands and watches your face. This is the Pahang clone registered as D145
Every durian season a handful of my customers ask me for the Golden Phoenix by name, and just as many ask for it without knowing that is what they want.
People ask me this every summer, usually right after they have tasted their first ripe durian (Durio zibethinus) and decided they cannot live without hauling one home.
Ask ten durian growers how many trees belong on a hectare and you will get answers from thirty to nearly three hundred, which sounds unhelpful until you
Left alone, a durian tree does one thing with enthusiasm: it climbs. Wild and seedling Durio zibethinus can reach 40 meters, a fine sight and a miserable tree to work.
Durian splits opinion harder than almost any fruit I grow, and the health question splits the same way. The honest answer is that Durio zibethinus is a
Durian smell does not politely stay in the box. Those volatile sulfur compounds are light and greasy, quick to settle into cloth, so durian smell that
The moment you crack a durian open, a countdown starts, and it is shorter than most people expect. Whole and sealed, the fruit holds for days, but once
People ask me this more than any other durian question, usually right after someone forwards them a scary article. The short version: the flesh you scoop