Pitomba fruit (photo courtesy TopTropicals.com)
Pitomba
Eugenia lushnathiana
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. The fruit is rich in vitamin C.
Indigenous to the coastal areas of southeast Brazil.
Eugenia lushnathiana
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. The fruit is rich in vitamin C.
Indigenous to the coastal areas of southeast Brazil.
Pitomba at LCG January 2025 (photo credit: Jacqui Lachmann)
Pitomba at LCG September 2022 (photo credit: Graham Bond)
