Panoramic Fruit
Exotic fruit grower in western Puerto Rico
Links and miscellanea regarding rambutan, mangosteen, longan, durian, and other exotic fruits
For further information regarding not just the fruits referred to in this website but countless other fruits both tropical and temperate, check out the links below. I have no commercial relationship with any of these sites and provide them only for ease in obtaining pertinent information on tropical fruit. Some sites may require entering search terms such as the scientific or common name of the fruit to locate the specifics.
www.crfg.org The California Rare Fruit Growers
www.montosogardens.com Has a great site with many different exotic fruit trees available for purchase, as well as ornamentals. Located in the mountains of western part of Puerto Rico.
www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/ Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department at Purdue University
www.nal.usda.gov/ The National Agricultural Library Homepage
www.csiro.au/ The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
www.rambutan.com Website connected with Panoramic Fruit as an information source
www.mangosteen.com Everything you need to know about this extraordinary fruit
www.rirdc.gov.au Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. A treasure trove of horticultural information and ongoing research; longan, rambutan, durian, and many others.
www.ntbg.org The National Tropical Botanical Garden. A non-profit privately funded organization dedicated to the advancement and promotion of tropical agriculture with an emphasis on the breadfruit. Enjoyable site, great photos and a mission statement that could help many to help themselves.
http://jardineseneida.com/ Jardines Eneida. located in Cabo Rojo in western Puerto Rico, is a large garden center that carries a very extensive range of exotic fruit and unusual cultivars of citrus, avocado, canepa and much more. Phone number (787) 851-1136
http://www.organicfarm.net/ Govardhan Gardens This farm in
Mayaguez and the link that follows are neighbors that I am lucky to have in my
area. The owner of Govardhan, Sadhu is a fountain of tropical plant lore and
does consulting. He is a grower, a writer (Oro Verde; securing the future of our
food. Antillian University Press. 2007) and a valued source for hard-to-get
trees.
http://www.montosogardens.com/ Bryan Brunner and his brother David
run this nursery in Maricao and Bryan is also a writer of several books that
help the hobbyist anywhere in the Spanish-speaking world to see the amazing
potential of what they grow and sell. A huge list of plant material that is
simply hard to find anywhere.
Panoramic Fruit Links
Contact us for wholesale inquiries only at wholesale@panoramicfruit.com or call R. Luciano at (787) 672-2134
Special Edition Rambutan Print
A few years ago, Panoramic Fruit commissioned a well-known watercolor artist in Puerto Rico, Alicia Sotomayor, to paint the rambutan. Over the course of two fruiting seasons and after taking numerous color photos to work with, the results of this painstaking process are below. The interest in having gicleé reproductions of the original was immediate and began even before completion of this beautiful and intense watercolor. We are finally, in collaboration with Alicia, offering high quality reproductions of the original rambutan watercolor. To obtain more information about ordering, please contact Alicia Sotomayor at artpuertorico@msn.com and enjoy all the other fine works on her site, as well. The page featuring this print is http://www.artpuertorico.com
