If I have a durian tree sapling for every time that I come across a cultivar with a name that has left me scratching my head, I’d have my own 10 hectare plantation by now. I’d build my house on …
There’s something about learning more about the history of a durian you like which captures the imagination. This is the same for all types of products. For example if someone loves the L’Apparita Merlot from Castello di Ama, it makes …
1) Look for holes on the husk exterior. Holes are signs of worms. 2) Look at whether the bottom of the durian has cracked open. Open indicates it has been some time since harvested. 3) The inner part of the …
Some durians comes with very distinctive features that tell them apart from others. For example, Musang king has the bald star bottom, green skin 15 has green coloured skin, 604 with the knuckle-like pulps, and Khun poh with it’s breathtaking …
Even though each durian cultivar has unique attributes on it’s thorns that are consistent most of the time, there can sometimes still be outliers are don’t follow the norm. For example, durian IOI and red prawn can usually be identified …
If you care enough about durians to do a little academic research into it, you’d inevitably find that a number of varieties have numeric names that have no bearing to it’s official registration number at all. The registration number actually …
The names of durians can vary widely with no clear pattern of how they adopted their local and commercial names at all. However, there are some clear methodology behind some groups of durians in terms of how they are named. …
The prices of durians have literally exploded in recent years. It’s like a stock price finally seeing a breakout after it had broken through a resistance level set for some time. And one of the big reasons is that durians …
The classic story line of how one embarks on a journey to coming of age has been a template for Hollywood movies. The flicks from the range of the Marvel cinematic universe are the best examples in recent years. It …