durian

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

The durian tree (Durio zibethinus) spends most of the year giving no sign it will ever bloom, then sets its whole reproductive schedule in motion over

Small durian means two very different things, and the difference decides whether you should worry. A tree that keeps turning out tiny, lopsided fruit has

Cut open almost any durian and the flesh inside glows some shade of yellow, from pale butter to deep gold. That color is the durian norm, and its exact

Durian is the one fruit where your instincts lie to you. The smell that would tell you any other fruit had rotted, strong and a little funky, is exactly