Rain Forest Plum Fruit

₹250.00

Eugenia candolleana, or rainforest plum, is a tree native from Atlantic rainforest of Brazil, known locally by the Portuguese names cambuí roxo ("purple cambuí") or murtinha ("little myrtle"). It is quite rare in the wild, and has seen limited use in landscaping for its bright green foliage and purple-black fruits.

Fruits mature between February and March. The ripe fruit is a round or slightly elongated berry, up to 20 mm wide and 25 mm long. It has a thin purple-black skin and a wet, firm, whitish pulp about 3–5 mm thick, surrounding a loose single (rarely double) seed. It is edible, moderately sweet, with an aroma similar to (but less intense than) that of the jabuticaba.

Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eugenia
Clade: Rosids