Eugenia uniflora L.
Brazil Cherry Barbados cherry Pitanga
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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