Jaboticaba fruit

Alyena:

Love the fruit! Did you get to taste the fruit?

It still amazing me how large this tree is...large
trees (LOL!!!) only about 12 feet / 4 meters tall are
very, very old here.

Never heard of this Aleyna .. is fruit as good as it looks ?

Andy...
The Jabuticabeira can grow up, up to 15 m high (50 feet), trunk light is spotted, smooth, with up to 40 cm (15 inches) in diameter.

Bonkers ...
this is a plant natural from rainforest,Brazil, called Myrciaria cauliflora or Plinia trunciflora... or 10 other names.... LOL... but this 2 are the botanical ones. It can grow 30 to 400 (yep 4 hundred) fruits in a single branch :o)
lots of food for the parrots :o)))))))
The fruit tastes like a mix of grapefruit and mirtilo... the smell is unique ... the flowers are funny... the look like littel cotton pompoms atached to the branches and trunk
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Thank you Aleyna ..seeing as I didnt know the original name all the others dont help much ...of course I know mirtilo is Portugese for blueberry as fluent in translation search . Ame de louco x

Aleyna:

I know they can eventually grow very large...however, a
tree of 50 feet / 15 meters tall must be hundreds of years
old. It is an extremely slow growing tree -- I've read that's
the reason why they have never been grown commercially
in California. Seedling trees can take from 8 - 15 years
to mature and start producing fruit.

Andy:

The following information was provided by the Botanical Department, Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU:
http://www.fruticultura.iciag.ufu.br/jabuticaba.html

It is recommended to soak the seeds in hot water at 20 ° C, and its treatment with fungicide powder.

Sowing can be done in containers or flower beds, planting for later transplanting. Sowing is done by placing the period from 1 to 5 seeds per container, 1 cm deep. In the case of beds, can be sown by broadcasting or online with a spacing of 10 to 20 cm. Germination occurs in 10 to 40 days, after which, we recommend be careful with pests. The first flowering and fruiting will occur into 10 years.
It is grown commercially here, in Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais and Goiás.

Bonkers...
Sorry :(... i knew the translation for mirtilo of course... because I first met blueberries in USA, they are not common here, a few cities in the high and cold areas are trying to grow them here.
I should say that it tastes different from the ones in USA.

Aleyna:

Thanks for the information! Have you found out how
old (approx) this tree is? I'm very interested...I'm
sure it's very old though. : > )

Andy,
I found out today that this tree is older than 50 years. The house was built in 1954 and there were a few Jabuticabeiras already there. Talking to a neighboor who was born and raised in the area, he said the trees were common there and told me to walk around and were to find out another specimens... and he was right, I found at least 8 other gardens with Jabuticabeiras... :o)

Aleyna:

If it was there before the house was built...realistically
it could be more than 60 years old. Now this makes
sense...because I've read they are extremely slow growing.

A friend who had a Jabuticabeira in the San Francisco Bay
Area --said his tree was about 25 years old and it was only
12 feet / 3.7 meters tall.