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Tropical cherry - ID please?
« on: May 30, 2018, 06:14:18 AM »
The nursery simply calls it cherry tree.  Other than that, they have no idea which one it is.  ID anyone?





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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2018, 06:28:05 AM »
Looks like "Malpighia glabra" to me.

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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2018, 11:39:04 AM »
Is it a Barbados Cherry? Are those little pink/purple flowers in the 2nd photo?

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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2018, 12:58:11 PM »
My mistake.  I should have observed the flowers carefully.  I did not even bother to notice if there were any flowers.  I only took pictures of the fruit.

Pictures of barbados cherry shows grooves (I don't know if that's the correct word) in the fruit.  But, this fruit is round and smooth like a cherry fruit from temperate zone.  The fruit of this tree was very sour. 

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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2018, 04:49:09 PM »
Looks like Acerola/ Barbados cherry.

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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2018, 05:17:32 PM »
Maybe cherry of rio grande?

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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2018, 05:50:54 PM »
Acerola

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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2018, 05:51:05 PM »
Definitely not Rio Grande.  I believe it is a Barbados.  Are there 3 seeds in each cherry?  Barbados has 3 seeds per cherry.  As far as "very sour"  The 2nd and 3rd year in the ground they get sweeter.  Most of that sour taste is the vitamin C.  Each cherry is about 4% vitamin C by weight, very, very high C content, I see normally it is listed as the highest C content of anything you can eat. 

The pink flowers do very much look like Barbados. 

Here is a pic of my Barbados.



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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2018, 05:53:37 PM »
BTW, they are excellent trees.  They are not fussy about anything, all they do is grow quickly and produce tons of cherries for most of the year, they do go dormant in the winter.
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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2018, 06:03:03 AM »
There were 3 seeds in each cherry.  The seeds were almost in the shape of a pomegranate seed.

Definitely not Rio Grande.  I believe it is a Barbados.  Are there 3 seeds in each cherry?  Barbados has 3 seeds per cherry.  As far as "very sour"  The 2nd and 3rd year in the ground they get sweeter.  Most of that sour taste is the vitamin C.  Each cherry is about 4% vitamin C by weight, very, very high C content, I see normally it is listed as the highest C content of anything you can eat. 

The pink flowers do very much look like Barbados. 

Here is a pic of my Barbados.




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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2018, 06:48:59 AM »
The leaves remind me of my Eugenia Cereja

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Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2018, 06:54:06 AM »
Acerola wins and there doesn't look to be too much doubt.