Join us on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Meetings feature a guest speaker, fruit swap, plant and seed exchange, plant raffle, and potluck. Please bring a fruit, a plant, or a friend!
Meetings held in the room called "Corbin A". Use the employee entrance near the south parking lot.
Topic: Seahorse Mangosteen – Presentation by Julian Lara
Rare, little-known fruit native to southeast Malaysia. Fruits are small but of excellent flavor. This species is believed by some to be one of the two natural hybridizing parents of the mangosteen.
Julian Lara, owner of Lara Farms, is second generation family farmer.
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