Talk:Rambutan

message: Hi, does anybody know why it's called 'nephelium'?
Does it have anything to do with the biblical titans?
Thanks Lotusduck 18:25, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article is based, according to its early page history, on "a public-domain report from the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture" (see base of page). However, this appears actually to be from the Rambutan page of Purdue University's Fruits of Warm Climates by Julia F. Morton; this is a copyrighted work, not USDA nor public domain. Thus it should not have been used in the first place.
As the page has been edited nearly 50 times since then with additional details from numerous wiki editors, I am a little wary of deleting the entire page as copyvio, but am editing it heavily with details (primarily botanical info) from a selection of other sources to reduce the similarity to the Purdue text. 
I would however value other ideas as to the best way to proceed - should it actually be deleted and started over? If not, could other editors please make further significant changes to the aspects about which I know less (particularly the cultivation and production side). Please note that, as a species from southeast Asia, Commonwealth English spellings should be used.
Thanks - MPF 15:47, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As a species from southeast Asia, Malay should be used. I'll stick to the US English though, since that's what over 2/3 of the world's English speakers use and anyway I couldn't do Commonwealth English if I tried. AlbertCahalan 06:30, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

text: The dialect choice is based on first-come, first-serve rather than the local interest, unfortunately. Kortoso  (talk) 23:21, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Source concerns - copyright

message: Are the fruits of this tree edible.  The article talks about cultivation and harvesting, but I didn't see anything about eating them. --EncycloPetey 13:05, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, they're edible.  Remove the outer skin and then you can eat the inside, being careful of the stone in the middle.  Tastes something like a grape, or a pear?  Maybe?  I don't know, they're nice anyway.   The article does talk about what they taste like, making jam out of them, etc., so I think it's implied that they're edible (maybe that text wasn't here when your comment was left).  --tiny plastic Grey Knight ⊖ 07:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  IMO, it tastes like lychee or cherry. you should try it. :)  114.121.23.76 (talk) 20:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I’ve always thought the taste reminded me of pomegranate: sweet with a bit of a sharp, refreshing tang. Dodiad (talk) 06:08, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Damned delicious. I think the confusion is that there aren't any notable dishes made from it; Wiki style is not to rave on about its taste and so on. Kortoso  (talk) 23:24, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Edibility

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message: Why is the second picture at the right column named "Litchis.jpg"? Fruits on the picture look more like rambutan than lychee, but the filename is confusing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trolzen (talk • contribs) 18:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Rambutan white background alt.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 3, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-02-03. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng  {chat} 22:03, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The information and pictures are accurate by my assessment. Fyi, the fruit can be grown anywhere in the tropics. There is a successful plantation of rambutan on Puerto Rico, allowing a small fresh farm market in San Juan. --Zefr (talk) 00:01, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's good to know. Maybe you can provide a picture of the tree, since we only have the fruit here. Kortoso (talk) 23:15, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Rambutan white background alt.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: I removed the following because it was very unclear. Does this refer to a totally different "species", or just a local cultivar of the same species? I was also completely confused about what Melicoccus bijugatus" had to do with anything until I realized it must be known in Spanish "mamón". But this could be worth clarifying and including if anyone can find a source that verifies this is actually rambutan and not another species.
"A species regularly sold in Costa Rican markets may be known as "wild" rambutan. Yellow in color, it is smaller than the usual red variety. The flesh exposed when the outer skin is peeled off is sweet and sour, slightly grape-like and gummy to the taste. In Panama and Costa Rican Spanish, it is known as mamón chino ("Chinese sucker") due to its Asian origin and the likeness of the edible part with Melicoccus bijugatus."
Dowcet (talk) 09:30, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed text re: Costa Rican rambutan

message: This sentence under "Quality" seems to come out of nowhere and makes no sense in context: "Thus, it is common Malay folklore to not eat too much rambutan when one has a cough." PapayaSF (talk) 05:03, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't sure what that meant either. And the rest of the section seems un-verifiable, so I'm going to just delete the whole thing. Dowcet (talk) 07:48, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "quality" section 

message: There are several published articles that are written in Indonesian that bear on this article. Is there an editor that knows Indonesian that could assess the info in these articles for inclusion here? Sbelknap (talk) 15:41, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-English literature