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Do not yield to the touch, are tough, I imagine they are not ripe, no?

The guy who tried them said they have little flavor now...

Great fruits, thanks for the info, at Misiones they use to call uvaia to the uvajay too, but I think they are very different, I hope to try ubajays soon (and I hope they dont taste like onions)

did you tasted it?

I tried new ones from today: THEY WERE SOOOO GOOD! like a navel orange+apricot, juicy, sweet and acid (more acid than the first one, and sweeter), so I think this is one of the best fruits I know. You can eat all with skin and spit the seed, really great fruit.

Maybe the first one I tried was overripe

Nice looking fruit, looks juicy.

yeah: it's just like you said :-D

Thanks Cassio

By the way, there are new uvaias in the tree ripening now!

is this a fruit fly? in that case, do you know what species is it?

Oh, yes Cassio, I was talking about eugenia pyriformis, I hope to try those species some day... didnt knew at all eugenia beauperina, I dont find anything on the net, can you tell us more about "her"?

I had a very nice time watching the video and I am so grateful both of you are in this forum! My only pitangatuba is just 5cm tall :S

This is the final report:

I took the only fruit so far that gave the tree at my parents' house, he said the smell was like a peach, but my mother said that it reminded her of popcorn (agree with both), and my wife commented that reminds a yogurt (also agree). Then, the aroma is like a cross between caramel, peach, yogurt, popcorn ...

When I returned home, I cut it in two: It came out much juice! That was nice. The taste was well balanced between acidity and sweetness, now I know that I should not have the "acid" variety, then it must be the sweet type.

The pulp was not firm -perhaps it was overripe-, being juicy and with some fibers that do not bother.










The taste reminded me of a tangerine. The red pitanga (eugenia uniflora) also reminds me mandarins (though. when underripe it has that annoying resinous flavor), and since both are eugenias, I should not be so wrong. The flavour of our e. uniflora is stronger than this e. pyriformis.

Maybe a little bland: I expected more acid and sweeter, but I can not blame anything to this fruit and I would it many of them per day: it has the quality of fruits sold in any grocery store (and the sweetness of a guava). Keep in mind this is the first fruit of the tree (the next should be better), and that in 2 or 3 months there will be 3 more to try.

Thanks friends, it is quickly becoming orange,



it's such a beautiful fruit that I want to eat now. It does not emits an odor that I could feel ... at least I did not realize ... the tree is beside a plum tree whose fruits were attacked by fruit flies (but then I did a trap and it's working very good) and are rotting in the ground, so the smell of the environment is rotten plum.

Thanks both:

I dont know, the tree is maybe 6 years old and 1.8m tall, growing slowly

If I should say what I eat everyday, it would be:

banana
nut
apple
grape
orange

but if you speak of fruits cultivated in the garden or rare fruits I rarely find in some stores:


lychee
sete capotes
guaviyu
black surinam cherry
cherimoya

Hi Dangermouse,

The Rio Cherry has about the same cold tolerance as the Surinam Cherry! I think it will grow very well in your place!

I'm currently growing 2 Grumichamas in large pots and in about 4 years they will start to produce!

I have never grown Rio's in a pot!

Adam, is the expert on pot culture!  Maybe, he has fruited Rio in a pot!

Do you know the grumichama cold hardiness?