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10 NUTMEG TREE SEED Myristica Fragrans Pala Fruit Nut Pumpkin Pie Spice planting

$ 7.55

Availability: 24 in stock
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  • Style: Traditional
  • Brand: Unbranded
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Sri Lanka
  • Condition: New
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    10 NUTMEG TREE SEEDS Myristica Fragrans Pala Fruit Nut Pumpkin Pie Spice for Planting
    Description:
    Quantity : 10 nuts without mace
    Nutmeg plant is a spreading evergreen tree that reaches up to 15-20 m height. The leaves are alternate, dark green, pinnatinerved. Flowers are generally unisexual and dioeciously. However, bisexual flowers of varying sexual composition can also be found. Occasional trees with male and female flowers are also seen in the plantations. Fruits are fleshy drupes, broadly pyriform, drooping with a circumferential longitudinal ridge. Fruit colour turns into yellow during the ripening and the pericarp splits into 2 halves exposing purplish-brown, shiny seeds surrounded by a net like red aril. Nutmeg trees yield two spices, nutmeg, which is the kernel of the seed and mace, which is the net-like crimson colored leathery out growth (aril) covering the shell of the seed.
    Nutmeg Plant & Cultivation:
    Deep, well drained, loam and sandy clay loam soils rich in organic matter are preferable. Soils with high water-table or liable to waterlogging are unsuitable. The seedlings are planted at the beginning of the rainy season. In Nutmeg, there are separate male and female trees but the sex of the trees can be identified only after flowering. In general, about 50% of seedlings will be males. Therefore, the initial spacing may be about 6 m x 6 m and after flowering, they may be thinned out. Male trees do not fruit but are essential for pollination, for which 1 male to 10 female trees is adequate. Plant requires well distributed rainfall of 1,500-2,500 mm. In areas with a pronounced dry spell or sandy soils, the annual rainfall should be higher. The annual average temperature should be 20-30°C without much seasonal or diurnal variation. Persistent strong winds are harmful for the growth of plants. Sheltered valleys and leeward slopes are suitable for cultivating nutmeg. Plant can be grown at elevation up to about 600m in the wet zone. Shade is essential during the first 2-3 years of growth. Thereafter full exposure to sunlight is beneficial.
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