🔥One of the Most Popular Backyard Fruits-🌱California Popular Surinamese Cherry Pitanga Tree Seeds

The Surinamese cherry is one of our most popular backyard fruits in California! It's a very beautiful tree with glossy green leaves and bright red buds, producing some of the most delicious and uniquely flavorful fruit we've ever tasted.

The Surinamese cherry shines like a jewel, possessing a sweet, fragrant, and slightly spicy flavor unlike any fruit you've ever tasted. This cherry tree is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree native to South America. It is highly regarded not only for its ornamental value but also for its delicious and nutritious fruit.

Its fruit is sweet and delicious, rich in Vitamin C, and hangs from the tree like tiny, delicate lanterns. Ripe fruit can be picked directly from the bush and eaten, or made into pies, jams, jellies, and juices, all with a delicious flavor. It blooms with small, delicate white flowers multiple times a year.

Surinamese cherry trees can grow up to 20 feet (about 6 meters) tall, with glossy, dark green leaves that are 2 to 6 inches (about 5 to 15 centimeters) long. In spring and summer, the trees produce fragrant small white flowers, followed by small, bright red to black cherries. The fruit is juicy, sweet, and slightly tart, rich in Vitamin C and other antioxidants.

About this Plant

Botanical Name: Eugenia uniflora

Common Names: Suriname Cherry, Pitanga

Lifespan: Perennial

Harshness Zone: 9b to 11

Fruiting Period: Early Summer and Autumn

Growth Form: 6 to 10 feet tall shrub-like tree

Fertilizer: ★★★★★ Water: ★★★★★ Light: ★★★★★