Information from Florida Fruit by Lewis Maxwell and Rare and Exotic Tropical Fruit Trees and Palms, by Carl W. Campbell and Seymour Goldweber, published by the Caloosa Rare Fruit Exchange; and our own observations and experience. [ Good] Guava [Moderate] Banana Black Sapote Caimito Canistel Carambola Cashew Cherry of the Rio Grande Citrus* Coconut Indian Jujube Java Plum Lychee Macadamia Nut Mango Mulberry Oriental Persimmon Rose Apple Sapodilla Surinam Cherry Tangerine/Mandarin Wax Jambu [Poor] Akee Ambarella Apple Barbados Cherry Bignay Carissa Cattley Guava Cherimoya Custard Apple Fig Grumichama Illama Imbe Jaboticaba Jackfruit Jelly palm Kei Apple Kwai Muk Longan Loquat Miracle Fruit Monstera Muscadine Grapes Otaheite Gooseberry Peach Pineapple Pineapple Guava Pitomba Pomegranate Prickly pear Red Mombin Roselle Soursop Spanish Lime Strawberry Tree Tamarind White Sapote [ None] Atemoya Avocado Cacao Coffee Lemon Mamey Sapote Mysore Raspberry Papaya Passion Fruit Sugar Apple Wampi Full article at https://www.echonet.org/content/fruitInformation/635
I lost a Washington navel and nearly lost my Fig ,Tahitian Lime, Blood Orange and Imperial Mandarin. Lots and lots and lots of rain last year. The Avocado seemed to love it, so did the sour sop,macadamias and jaboticabas.
Do not agree with that list .. many trees growing here are water logged for weeks and have thrived , Soursop and Mammey and Cacoa grows along creeks in the Amazon , they would be flooded for ages ! Jaboticaba loves lots of water and I flood irrigate mine often .
hmmm. Oh well. Guess whomever wrote the article is basing their judgements on to small a varity of said plants
Need to remember a permaculturist takes care of their soil and most farms do not. That alone could take into account why some people have better success over others. Good soil can hold 5x maybe more water then compacted / traditional ag soil.
In the Brisbane and Qld. floods this year, so much crap was in the flood waters-- paint, industrial and road waste, solvents, fuels like petrol, diesel and kerosene, pesticides, fungicides, cleaning and industrial chemicals, plastics, fertilisers and other assorted garbage. A plant that survives that would be hardy indeed. A river that floods naturally with the seasons, like the Nile or Amazon is, I think, a different 'kettle of fish' and would mostly (historically at least) have replenished flood basin/delta agricultural soils.