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AndrewAZ:
The reason I got into Eugenias here in AZ originally is because when I moved out here in 2012, I asked my son what kind of tree to plant and he wanted a cherry tree.  Of course at the time, you could not grow cherries out here.  So I did some research and it said for cherry flavor, do cherry Rio grande, grumichama, or acerola.  Well, 9 years later, my grumichama and eugenia calycina continue to grow like snails, my acrrola tastes more like a tart raspberry than a cherry.  I know have a Nadia cherry plum and crimson cherry to plant over the winter and my son is off to college next year.  Kind of funny how things go.
But that leads me to my question, are there any eugenias or any other tropical fruit that tastes like an actual cherry?  I have heard many descriptions of a fruits taste on here, but I do not remember anyone saying a certain fruit tasted like a sweet cherry.

driftwood:
Acerola isn't known to be very sweet more a nutritious fruit, but there are sweeter selected varieties

You should try Pitanga - Eugenia Uniflora. There is red and dark red/black. The dark red/black variety is very sweet like a dark cherry.

Zills has a variety called Zill's Dark Suriname Cherry, I got some seeds from a forum member Achetadomestica

Growing some in AZ as well

ManVFruit:
This is the sales section of the forum, you may want to post your question in the fruit discussion sections..

digigarden:
https://www.growables.org/information/TropicalFruit/capulin.htm

capulin cherries...this is a subtropical species of real cherries. in the genus prunus :)
this one doesn't need cold just shorter days to trigger flowering...then there's a few other species from florida and california that should be able to fruit there.

then you have some low chill cherry varieties that might fruit there
https://askthegreengenie.com/fruit-trees/low-chill-cherries/

there's some other tropical fruit called cherries...jamaican cherry that is also called capulin but it's muntingia calabura
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntingia

for eugenia well there's really a lot of them...some taste quite good but a lot are straight up very "wild" plants and are eaten more by birds than humans.

Nakmuay:
Acerola cherry / barbados cherry is quite nice. Malpighia emarginata

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