Pitomba fruit (photo courtesy TopTropicals.com)
Pitomba
Eugenia lushnathiana
Myrtaceae family
Pitomba is a very rare, beautiful, small to medium sized sub-tropical cherry tree. A cousin to the Lychee and Longan, it is also the most slow growing of all Eugenias.
The Pitomba produces bright orange-yellow fruit with soft, melting, juicy, flesh with a highly aromatic slightly acid flavour, comparable to an apricot. With a texture so soft and a flavour so wonderful, they are bound to be addictive! They are good eaten fresh, or made into jams, jelly and preserves.
Indigenous to the coastal areas of southeast Brazil.
Tree Maintenance
Pruning
Eugenia lushnathiana
Myrtaceae family
Pitomba is a very rare, beautiful, small to medium sized sub-tropical cherry tree. A cousin to the Lychee and Longan, it is also the most slow growing of all Eugenias.
The Pitomba produces bright orange-yellow fruit with soft, melting, juicy, flesh with a highly aromatic slightly acid flavour, comparable to an apricot. With a texture so soft and a flavour so wonderful, they are bound to be addictive! They are good eaten fresh, or made into jams, jelly and preserves.
Indigenous to the coastal areas of southeast Brazil.
Tree Maintenance
Pruning
- Prune immediately after harvest to size as needed.
- Spring (early): liquid seaweed, poultry manure.
- Summer: compost around drip line.
- Autumn (late): liquid seaweed, sulphate of potash.
Pitomba at LCG February 2026 (photo credit: Jacqui Lachmann)
Pitomba at LCG September 2022 (photo credit: Graham Bond)
