Jaboticaba 'Blue' at LCG, January 2025 (photo credit: Graham Bond)
Jaboticaba 'Blue'
Myrciaria vexator
Myrtaceae Family
A slow-growing evergreen tree that can grow up to 10m tall. It is an exquisite landscape specimen that bears delicious grape-like fruit. The species is obscure and only available from specialised sources.
The fruit can be harvested when fully coloured and slightly soft to the touch.
Native to Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela.
Tree maintenance
Myrciaria vexator
Myrtaceae Family
A slow-growing evergreen tree that can grow up to 10m tall. It is an exquisite landscape specimen that bears delicious grape-like fruit. The species is obscure and only available from specialised sources.
The fruit can be harvested when fully coloured and slightly soft to the touch.
Native to Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela.
Tree maintenance
- Pruning - requires minimal pruning; however, removing branches in the centre of the tree will improve fruit production; remove dead or crossed branches.
- Fertilise twice a year with an organic all round fertiliser.
- Appears to have greater drought tolerance than its cousin the jaboticaba.
- Thrives better when heavily mulched.
Jaboticaba 'Blue' at LCG December 2024 (photo credit: Jacqui Lachmann)
Jaboticaba 'Blue' at LCG August 2022
(Photo credit: Graham Bond)
