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[Robyn Francis <erda@nor.com.au>]

Yes, its a lovely tree, grows a bit slow (for a tropical spp) and you need
patience to wait the 4- 5 years before it first bears fruit. We get 2 crops
a year, one in spring and another in summer. The spring crop just finished a
couple of weeks ago.
I've 2 Jaboticaba growing here, one under canopy in the food forest and the
other in an open edible landscape (they're an attractive small tree). I'll
be planting a few more as I'm interested in making Jaboticaba wine as grapes
don't like the humidity here. Its a hardy species and has handled the
extremes of our subtropic climate well: excessive wet, drought, and even
frost. 
There's lots of interesting fruit in the tropics and subtropics...
Robyn


On 29/10/10 2:13 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
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Carl DuPoldt wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jabuticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruits, Brazilian Grape Tree
>> http://www.zuzafun.com/jabuticaba-the-brazilian-grape-tree
>> 
>> 
>> 
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