With the heat this year, a pineapple and papayas grow in Toulouse
Incredible vision for walkers in the Garden of the Museum. In the Borderouge district in the north of Toulouse, in the Parc de la Maourine, the Museum welcomes the public, especially schoolchildren. With, during these All Saints holidays, an unexpected guest, garden star inductee : pineapple.
An air of Brazil because of an exceptionally hot summer
The fruit, which generally grows in Brazil, Costa Rica, or in the DOM-TOMs, has appeared for the very first time and is admired by visitors. “It’s still surprising: pineapples, I’ve seen a lot of them in Africa. But in Toulouse, never! Papayas are just as amazing. Apparently they had bananas last year. It worries me a little for the future of the climate. I think we will have to adapt.“, is surprised Jacques, a visitor to the garden.
A reputation that is starting to make noise, and overshadows, but not for very long, the small papayas a few meters away. On a plan, six papayas and a very fragrant flower. Here again, a first flowering in Toulouse for this tropical fruit, which is found a lot in India and Brazil. Borderouge papayas, like pineapples, should not grow too large. These fruits, that’s what’s crazy, didn’t grow in a greenhouse.
The park had already seen bananas, which is nothing extraordinary in Toulouse where many gardens, Saint-Agne/Saouzelong district for example, have banana trees which flower most often.
Their flowering, explains the Museum, is the “fruit” of an exceptionally hot summer in the Pink City, and the mild autumn. It is still 24 degrees this October 27 in Toulouse, the same temperature expected on Friday. 38/39 degrees were regularly reached this summer.