Date: 18 Feb 2025
What cactus vine produces gooseberries
Q: I've heard about a tropical gooseberry suitable for making jams but don't know its exact name. Do you have it? Gooseberry jam is my husband's favorite, but I can't find gooseberries here in Florida - too hot, maybe?
A: Yes, we do have the plant you're looking for! We've just made some delicious jam from this tropical gooseberry, and it tastes just like the northern varieties but even more flavorful! Florida's winter is the perfect season for this wonderful fruit. Right now, our plant is growing quickly and vigorously over our fence, and it's covered with fruit. Just a couple of months earlier it was full of fragrant, beautiful white flowers!
The plant in question is Perescia aculeata, commonly known as Barbados Gooseberry. It's a unique cactus with both edible leaves and fruit, making it a tropical treasure that offers beauty as well as culinary delights.
The fruit is yellow with a juicy, subacid pulp that tastes remarkably similar to traditional gooseberries. You can enjoy the fruits fresh, stewed, or transformed into jams and jellies.
The young leaves are also edible, adding a nutritious boost to your meals.
This fast-growing vining cactus prefers well-drained soil that remains moist during the summer and drier in winter, and it can be effectively grown in containers on a trellis.
Watch a short video of Barbados Gooseberry fruiting.
Date: 22 Feb 2025
If you are missing Northern fruit that dont tolerate hot climate, plant this
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus) is from India. It thrives in heat!
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Date: 28 Mar 2025
This is how a young Loquat tree is fruiting
A young Loquat tree fruiting
🙂 This is how a young Loquat tree is fruiting
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- 🟡10 best fruit trees to grow in Florida and Southern landscapes
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Date: 25 Mar 2025
How to have fruit year around: Everbearing Mulberry
Everbearing Mulberry
😎 How to have fruit year around: Everbearing Mulberry
- 🍇Mulberry is very cold hardy and can grow in wide range of climate zones, from USDA 5 to 10. Everyone knows this sweet, tasty, juicy fruit.
- 🍇The fast growing tree or bush will produce right away, you will see fruit the next year after planting, or even the same season!
- 🍇Mulberry trees take poor soils and grow well in almost any conditions once established.
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Date: 21 Mar 2025
Why Hog Plum tree is so popular: it produces so much fruit!
Hog Plum tree, Purple Mombin
Hog Plum tree, Purple Mombin
Hog Plum tree, Purple Mombin
- 💋 The Hog Plum tree, also known as Purple Mombin, produces juicy and sweet fruits with a unique plum-like flavor.
- 💋 The tree is valued for its vibrant spring blooms, which emerge from bare branches in shades of red, purple, or yellow, signaling the fruit to come.
- 💋 Hog Plum tree offers different fruit varieties: red, yellow, and orange.
- 💋 Fruit are enjoyed fresh, pickled, stewed, or made into delicious Mombin Butter.
- 💋 Easy-to-grow nature and rapid growth of the Hog Plum tree make it a favorite, thriving even with minimal care. It iis often used for creating living fences due to its fast growth and easy propagation.
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