Barbados Cherry

Growing Barbados Cherry is a simple thanks to add a tropical flair to your garden. once you know it is vital and the way to worry for the Barbados Cherry plant, you’ll be rewarded with a few years of lovely fruits.

What makes it special:
Popular for its highest vitamin C content.
Low maintenance plant.
The perfect plant for outdoor garden.
This product doesn’t have flowers and fruits at the time of shipping. Afterward, the plant will bloom and produce fruits. Malpighia emarginata is an evergreen shrub or small tree with a brief bole and spreading branches within the Malpighiaceae family. it always grows about 2-3 m tall .

The branches are brittle. The leaves are simple, opposite, and with small hairs. The flowers are bisexual with five pink or red petals. The fruits are bright red drupes, juicy, and has high vitamin C content making the fruits taste sour. The fruits are edible, usually eaten raw but also made into juices, baby food, jam, etc. it’s also grown as ornamental shrub and hedges in Landscaping.Keep spacing 4 for a hedge. It gives fewer fruits in partial shade. It requires warm climate. It are often propagated by seeds, cuttings and other methods. A width of pots should be around 24 inches for single acerola tree.Note: Stinging hairs which will cause skin irritation.