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This bright red cherry-like fruit has varying tastes during different stages in maturity. When fully ripe the fruit is juicy and aromatic with its acid content giving it a sweet acid apple-like flavour. The tree can produce a number or crops each year, making for quite a long harvest season. Our selection we grow is called the acerola Florida Sweet Cherry and is a pleasant eating variety that is not too sour. The most notable feature of Acerola Cherry is its very high Vitamin C content, once grown commercially just for its Vitamin C. The acerola is well suited to pot culture where it can be kept to a smaller size, it could also be grown this way in cooler climates where it can be moved to a warmer position in the winter.
A word of warning the foliage of the plant is covered in minute, irritating stinging hairs that can produce an allergic reaction, so when pruning your trees wear a long sleeved shirt and a pair of gloves.
| Height | Frost tol. | Pollination req'd | Evergreen/Deciduous | Harvest period |
| 2-4 | Medium | No | Evergreen | Summer - Autumn |
We welcome your Tips on Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet. Share Your Tip.
Pick early ,before the birds and fruit fly then ripen inside the house, when green has turned to yellow. | Rolf - Bankstown, NSW 07-Dec-2005
Is World Champion in Vitamin C amounts - refer to www.nal.usda.gov... ( see below ) | Rolf - Bankstown , Sydney, NSW 22-Dec-2005
No fruit fly problems . | R O L F - Bankstown 2200, NSW 05-Jan-2006
Does very well espaliered. Full sun or near to. Water well and mulch heavily. Fruiting much improved by a good dose of potassium late winter and frequent additions of seasol. | David White - Newcastle, NSW 30-Jan-2006
Vitamin C content : http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search .Has twice as much Vitamin C when unripe | Rolf - Bankstown, NSW 19-Mar-2006
It has lived and thrived through the hottest summer with regular watering. I would recommend this for Western Queensland gardeners. As with any fruit it's hard to beat the birds. | Anna Watts - Quilpie, QLD 22-Mar-2006
Acerola combined with orange makes a great juice. And its jam tastes fantastic. | Flora Cauchi - Kellyville, NSW 18-Dec-2006
We live 1km from ocean in a horrifically hot and windy climate - ours doing really well - not many flowers or fruit though (>2yrs old and 2m high) wind has broken a large branch - but it's still happy (gets irrigated) | Amanda Sunley - Geraldton, WA 10-May-2009
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