Seed-grown
Jaboticaba
Grape-like fruit that sprouts right on the trunk. The pulp is sweet. The skin is tannic — spit it, or dry it for tea.
This variety
The fruit
Grape-like fruit that sprouts right on the trunk. The pulp is sweet. The skin is tannic — spit it, or dry it for tea.
Taste, season, cold, and how to plant this one.
- Taste
- Grape-like fruit that sprouts right on the trunk. The pulp is sweet. The skin is tannic — spit it, or dry it for tea.
- Ripens
- Flushes of white flowers, then fruit a few weeks later, often in spring and sometimes again. You will wait years, not months, because these are seed-grown.
- Zones
- Zones 9b to 11.
- Hardiness
- Handles a light frost better than a mango. A hard freeze can burn foliage. It is slower in cold soil.
- Size
- Eventually a beautiful small tree, 12 to 20 feet, with mottled bark. Very slow.
- Tips
- Buy it as a living sculpture you will love before it fruits. Grafted jaboticaba fruit sooner; these pots are seedlings.
- Pollination
- Self-fruitful once it is old enough to flower.