permaculture

[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

I've tried to grow these in containers (since I'm in zone 4) but I
think they have fairly high humidity requirements because they really
suffered in my wood heated house in the winter....

~mIEKAL


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Toby Hemenway
<toby@patternliteracy.com> wrote:
> Jabuticaba is in pretty common use in tropical permaculture sites, 
> especially in Hawai'i. The fruits are very sweet, more like a cherry than a 
> grape. It's a happy time when they are bearing, both because they are 
> delicious and because it's very strange to see a huge amount of fruit 
> growing right from the trunk and large branches, rather than from twigs and 
> buds. There's a small forest of them at the ag experimental station in Hilo 
> on the Big Island. (That's an awesome site if you can get permission to 
> visit, as it has hundreds of species of useful tropical trees, with fruits 
> I've never encountered anywhere else. The durian grove there is 
> astonishing.)
>
> Toby
> http://patternliteracy.com
>
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>
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Carl DuPoldt wrote:
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>> Jabuticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruits, Brazilian Grape Tree
>> http://www.zuzafun.com/jabuticaba-the-brazilian-grape-tree
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