Will be great to see the photos and compare, thanks Cassio

Marcos,
I was there yesterday, but no luck. All jaboticabas were already sold.
A seller said me he must recieve a few more in the next weekend, but he don´t know if the supplier will be the same...
Let´s wait.

...in english this means hairy cross...because the fruits are fuzzy, and there is a cross shaped scar at the top of the fruit...something like a grumichama has...

In the last weekend, I bought a small box of jaboticabas in a market near of my home. At first, what claimed my atention was some big fruits in the box (not common), together with small ones. In fact, the fruits size was variable, but the biggest were sweet, while the smaller weren´t, being acid. I remember the fruits had a good amount of pulp, the majority with two seeds, but the pulp had white color  instead of almost transparent as in other jaboticabas that I tasted before. And all the fruits had that shaped scar at the top, something like a crux... I still have the box: the fruits comes from Aguaí, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brasil.
I discarded all the seeds, except two which I seeded. Maybe I had the Grimal in my hands without to know? I´ll be back to that market today and see if there is more of these fruits still left. If so, I´ll take and show you photos.

Roy, do you have photos of flowers and fruits too?

Hi Ajesh!
I received the seeds yesterday, and all of them (Alangium salvifolium and Salacia fruticosa) are already sprouted! 
Thanks!

Adam, I know what you mean. Indeed, the flavor is difficult to describe and the fruit has little pulp, but I like it too.
Ubanaxica don´t have fluffis over the skin, is a tad bigger and has a bit more of pulp, with the flavor being almost exactly the same as cabeludinha.
In my house I have a small ubanaxica with 50 cm tall. As a side note, I´m living in São Paulo, where a park named Butantã (famous for producing snake antivenoms), has a few trees of cabeludinha, ubanaxica and also 03 cambucás, and 10 jaboticabas. In july, I was there and collected a lot of ubanaxicas. A lot of peoples here don´t know the fruit, so, I had the time to collect a lot with my kids.

Luc, in fact, I never tasted the guaquica. All that I know comes from internet, but what I read, looks like exactly like you described.

Marcos, I never tasted the guabiju, but now you let me curious about the fruit. 

Cabeludinha (Myrciaria glazioviana) has a good flavor, but the fruit don´t have a good amount of pulp. I think that giant cabeludinha has the same problem...
A similar fruit, named Ubanaxica (Myrciaria Strigipes) is a bit bigger than cabeludinha and also has a little more of pulp. The flavor is the same.

Guaquica (Myrciaria guaquiea) other similar, has fruits from 2 to 3 cm, even more pulp and is a bit more sweet.

Quote from: pauloc on July 18, 2014, 05:34:40 AM

Cassio, this is   probably Nicandra physaloides. It is an invasive plant and the fruits are not edible.

Yees it seams too! 

Yeah, I´m with you. Surelly looks a lot like that.
I´ll wait a little more to see the fruits.
Thanks!

For the last, two species of dwarf gabiroba The winter damaged them, but they are alive.

Campomanesia Adamantium


Campomanesia Pubescens

The traditional Uvaia (Eugenia Piryformis)






Also, uvaia has many variants: http://www.colecionandofrutas.org/eugeniapyriformis.htm

Anacardium humile doesn't like of a humid soil. When young, the plant also doesn´t like of full sun nor full shadow too.
It´s hard to keep the right conditions, I know for myself! I lost ten young plants until now... Only two are remaining and I keep them protected from the full sun and with little, really little water.

I don´t know what is that one, but it isn´t the uvaia...
The gabiroba looks correct, but the image is small to make me sure.

Jaboticaba has recalcitrant seeds. So, it don't resists for long time.
Read the Abstract: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-29452011000100030&script=sci_arttext.

Grumixama has the same problem, but I have success seedling after I received the seeds still inside the fruits. So, I think it can be an option for you to have viable seeds of jaboticabas.

Quote from: Tomas on July 09, 2014, 08:53:38 PM

Hi Cassio,

I think the trick is to have the correct formula of the soil mix. Here is what e-jardim wrote me some years back about growing M. nana successfully:

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- germination in pure silica sand
- grow them in pots, 40% coarse sand + 40% fine sand + 20% clay or another soil;  the substrate should be well drained and acid pH side.
- provide as much light as possible

Under these conditions, it will grow very well (and fast). Chemical fertilization is harmful. If needed, use 1/3 of normal dosage of Osmocote or another slow releasing.
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Good luck!

Tomas

Another one with the curse of the cerrado. Yes lots of sand for cerrado plants seems crucial for survival.

Yeah, I´m sure I used the wrong mixture for the soil. This, plus winter and to much humidity... 
I tryed the same with anacardium humile, and I lost the small plants too. Now I´m cultivating anacardium humile from seeds, and it´s going very well. Due to this I´m thinking to try the same with the M. nana.