🍒 Don't plant cherries until you see this one!

• 🍒 Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia aggregata) is one of those tropical fruits you don't forget once you taste it. The fruit looks like a dark ruby jewel and ripens to almost black, with a sweet, full cherry-like flavor.
• 🍒 Unlike the temperate cherries, this one thrives in warm climates and starts flowering as early as March, keeping the harvest going well into summer.
• 🍒 This little fruit tree that fits anywhere! It's slender, branching, fits neatly in limited spaces or even in a pot, yet still produces plenty of fruit.
• 🍒 Can a tropical cherry really handle freezing temps? Once mature, Cherry of the Rio Grande can handle surprising cold snaps down into the 20s. A tough little tree that gives you a taste of the tropics right in your own backyard!

🛒 From Rio Grande to your garden

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🎈 What does Blue Jaboticaba taste like?

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  🍇 Blue Jaboticaba - Myrciaria vexator - is full of fruit now! We enjoyed these delicious grape-like fruit.
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  🍇 Also known as Vexator or Blue Grape, this charming relative of the Jaboticaba is as delightful to look at as it is to taste.
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  🍇 It's a slow-growing, ornamental shrub or small tree that can reach up to 6 feet tall, with glossy leaves that add elegance to any garden.
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  🍇 The plant produces dark purple, almost bluish fruits with thin, sweet flesh surrounding one or two large seeds, offering a flavor reminiscent of sweet grapes. Fruiting in late spring or early fall, these delicious fruits are typically enjoyed fresh or used in refreshing drinks.
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  🍇 Though lesser-known in cultivation, Blue Jaboticaba can rival or even surpass the traditional Jaboticaba in fruit quality, with a single bush capable of producing several thousand fruits!
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  🍇 It's also tough enough to handle light frost once established, and its care needs are similar to those of Myrciaria cauliflora. Whether you grow it for its beauty or for its unique harvest, this plant is sure to charm with every season!

📚 Learn more from previous posts:

Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba
What is Jaboticaba? I like the sound of this word!

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➕ The fruit of chance and necessity

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." - Democritus

🐈📸 Cat James Coconuts is a stoic of TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden.

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