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runner bean trees
Sea Change Started conversation Feb 28, 2004
I was well rewarded to look up the Ilawarra Flame Tree the last time I read an Australian article on H2G2, it's a beautiful specimen. Because of this, I am curious about the trees you have mentioned here, Frenchbean. 
Does the runner bean tree have a more specific name? I can't get a "runner bean tree" result from Google. Are they tamarinds?
The custard apple that appears on australian websites looks a lot like what we call a cherimoya here in California. They both seem to belong to Annona and need hand pollination, only I think of cherimoyas being from the Andes, and one of the Australian cultivars has an african-sounding name. Do you think they are the same?
The strawberry tree results I get suggest an Irish cultivar. Are these a different plant, or a lychee, or an australian variant?
runner bean trees
frenchbean Posted Feb 28, 2004
Hello Sea change 
The Strawberry Tree is also known and the Panama Berry Muntingia calabura and is indigenous to tropical America.
Custard Apples are the Atemoya family and include Cherimoyas 
Runner Bean Trees are a variety of tamarind, but I don't have any details about them. Delicious is all I care about 
Frenchbean 
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frenchbean Posted Feb 29, 2004
I have a fabulous book about tropical fruit, so ask me anything you like 
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