White Pitanga Seeds X 3

Botanical Name: Eugenia uniflora 'Honey White'

Common Names: White Pitanga, White Surinam Cherry, Surinam Cherry

3 seeds including free shipping is $25, add 2 seeds for $10 extra or get 10 seeds for $60. Available around November each year. If you select pickup I will give you 2 extra seeds if available.

White Pitanga is a very rare fruit tree. This dwarf type has fruit that tastes like a mix of honey and lemonade. I found these to be sweeter than blacks. It is a fantastic choice for Perth gardens as it handles our conditions well, giving you a unique and tasty fruit not found in shops.

Features:

Ideal prune height range: 1.5-2.5m

pH growing conditions: 5.5 to 6.5

Shade or full sun: Full sun to part shade in Perth Metro

Minimum pot year 5: 40L pot

Time to fruit age: 2-3 years from a grafted tree.

White Pitanga trees are compact and great for small spaces or growing in pots. They produce small white flowers followed by cream-white fruit that is different from the common red Pitanga. The tree is tough and drought-tolerant once it gets going, and it fruits for ages. It is a berry good choice for urban growers.

Interesting Notes:

The leaves give off a great spicy smell when crushed. Pitanga is a source of Vitamin C and antioxidants.

This white variety is extra special because of its unusual colour and amazing flavour. Grown from seed, they are 70–80% likely to be true to type. You may get a delightful pink tinge in the fruit or turn up more red like the common ones. Regardless, a seedling is very likely to be an improvement of the common red and much sweeter too.

White Pitanga is a real collector's plant and will make your food forest stand out.

Extremely limited stock. Pickup from Parkwood,

Can post Australia wide except for Tasmania.

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