Tropical and subtropical fruits (2+1)

Varieties

Paper shell: It is grown in South India. The fruits are medium to large size. The flesh is pinkish and the seeds are soft. The aril has good flavour with very high fruit bearing capacity.
Alandi or Vadki: It is commonly grown in Maharastra and Gujarat. Fruits are of medium size, blood reed or deep pink flesh with sweet, slightly acidic juice. The seeds are very hard.
Ganesh: It is a selection from ‘Alandi’ The fruit is medium in size. It has soft seeds. The aril is pink, high yielding, with average fruit weight of 325g, sweet and round fruit shape, TSS of 16.47 per cent, Acidity 0.42 per cent.
Jyothi: It is selection from Basin seedless variety developed by University of Agriculture Sciences, Bangalore; Fruits are bigger in size with attractive red colour, with soft seeded and more flesh and TSS of 16 per cent.
Mridula: It is a seedling selection from an open pollinated F2 population of a cross Ganesh and Gul-e-Shan red. Fruits are red in colour and round shape with sweet aril soft seeded fruit.
Jalore seedless – It is a soft seeded variety developed and recommended by CAZRI, Jodhpur for arid regions as the fruit matures early and maximum fruit production is coincided with available soil moisture during monsoon, large fruits (200g) with pink to deep red skin, arils are pink to red having soft seeds with attractive overall appearance of fruit.
Hybrid – Ruby: Ganesh X Kabul X Yercard : Developed by Indian Institute of Horticulture Research, Bangalore. The fruits resembles like Ganesh variety with reddish brown skin with green stripes on skin, soft seeded with bigger size and red coloured arils, heavy yielder (16-18 t/ha).
G-137, Bhagawa: The other varieties popularly grown are – Dholka, Kandhari Kabul, Muscat, Jodhpur red, P-23, P-26,