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Trenoret Agriculture:

a'roki Tree

Name: A’roki Tree

Indigenous: Originally the eastern coasts of Jarok, but is now grown globally.

Use: Cultivated for its edible fruits.

 

Habit: Forms a fast growing tree which starts off fairly columnar, but gets increasingly broad and out branching with time. A mature tree may have quite a wide and flat canopy almost as wide as the tree is high.

Favoured conditions: Enjoys temperate conditions and rich moist soils, though its extensive cultivation has enabled it to tolerate cold winters and tropical placements, however the tree is not very drought tolerant, and frosts when the flower buds are forming in the autumn before fruiting can reduce the crop significantly.

Structure: The tree is relatively tall, approximately 15-20m in the mature adult, with spreading up to this in the older specimens, The canopy is very open divided into groups from their supporting branches, large branches are often arranged helically around the main trunk, though the finer branches exhibit a more upright habit.

Foliage: The foliage is fairly consistant, most species will have irregularly scalloped leaves, Arok’I trees are one of the lineage of the ‘red trees’ and so their foliage is often red, or dark red, green cultivars are also known which lack the red phytophyll.

Flowering and fruits: The fruits develop from small spherical flowers which grow at some leave junctions on the plant, (generally on second year wood). The small flowers are essentially spherical, and made of a thin layer of green wood, at the very base there is a small opening to the sexual parts of the flower. Pollination is facilitated by small biota which are attracted to the fragrance of the flower (undetectable to humans). The fertilised fruit then grows, the outer wooden case expanding to about 5cm, and fleshy fruit segments fill the internal cavity. The ripe fruit can then abscise and fall to the ground where the seed is generally spread by small animals.

Cultivation: Arok’I tree is a widely cultivated fruit crop, and is grown in large scale plantations, the current cultivated species are quite dissimilar to their original wild type. Fruit size has been increased, some species having fruits as large as 15cm across (though lower yielding). New plants are generated by cuttings or grafts, this is necessarily the case for the seedless species, but the seeds of these trees rarely comes true from seed. The ripe fruit can be left to abscise of the parent tree, but frequently the branches are shaken. However it is wise to observe that the cricket ball like nature of the fruit, this means that the pickers frequently dress in heavily padded, or plated clothing and helmets.

 

Additional notes: The ripe fruit is highly thought of by the Trenoc, the ripe fruit are cracked open (often by throwing them at the floor), and the flesh spooned out. Its taste is not dissimilar to Kiwi fruit, but are slightly more citrus. Many products are made from the fruit including juices, and as a flavour in many more products.

 

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