Mazhar Botanic Garden

Eugenia uniflora L.

Brazil Cherry Barbados cherry Pitanga

Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eugenia
Species: uniflora
Sample code: EGY-MBG-000626
English name: Brazil Cherry, Barbados cherry, Pitanga
Arabic name: اوجينيا
Native: Brazil
Country: Brazil
(PGR): Rare

Evergreen shrub 2-4 m tall or small tree to 7 m young leaves pink to bronze or dark red, mature leaves dark green, opposite, simple, ovate to lanceolate 2-7 cm long, 15-3 cm wide, apex obtuse to shortly acuminate flowers creamy white, fragrant fruit succulent, pendulous berry, 2-4 cm in diameter, depressed-globose, conspicuously 8-ribbed, commonly containing 1-3 seeds, though it can have a single large seed or up to 7 small seeds

Eugenia braziliana (L) Aubl, Plinia rubra L

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Texture: Chalk Clay Loam Organic
Fertility: High
Drainage: Well drained
Salinity: Intermediated
Water Sources: Humidity Moderate Water
Climates: Subtropics Tropical
Lights: Full sun Light shade
Propagation: Seeds, cuttings
Flowering time: Spring
Zone: 9b : 11
pH range: 5- 6.5
Located in: Fruits garden

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