A highly ornamental tree that bears small red berries within its first year. Blossoming and producing all year round, the flowers are white and followed by small red fruit that is sweet with the taste of caramel. The trees are exceptionally attractive with long spreading branches that often droop down to the ground and soft weeping foliage. Trees are very fast growing and drought hardy once established. They can grow 5-10m in ideal conditions but respond well to being cut back so it is possible to keep them smaller than this making it easier to browse on the tempting little fruits. Panama berries will happily grow and fruit in large containers provided they have a good quality mix and a healthy layer of organic mulch to hold the moisture in. It is the ideal backyard tree if you have children as it is a lovely little shade tree as well as producing tempting little sweet treats. Used fresh or in jams.
140mm | $12.90 AU | In Production | 
| Height | Frost tol. | Pollination req'd | Evergreen/Deciduous | Harvest period |
| 10 | Low | No | Evergreen | All year round |
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This fruit tastes the same as Milk Arrowroot biscuits. | R O L F - Bankstown 2200, NSW 05-Jan-2006
This is a lolly tree, I think the fruits taste like vanilla ice cream. None of my fruit ever make it inside, they are all eaten in the shade of the tree. | Kathryn Kermode - Cawongla, NSW 12-May-2006
Tghis beautiful tree will even successfully grow and fruit in the harsh climate of Western Queensland!!! | Robyn Wing - Mareeba, QLD 31-May-2006
My philippine culture tells me that eating the fruit is good for diebetes cure | Jocelyn Layacan Oldfield - Cairns, QLD 23-Oct-2006
If your looking for a fast growing, attractive shade tree that you can snack from... then dont look no further than the panama berry. | Richard Walter - Wollongong, NSW 23-Nov-2006
Muntingia calabura is recognised by the Queensland Herbarium as a weed, there are 4 collections from the Wet Tropics and one collection from the Mackay region. If it is 'the fastest growing tree in the world' then I would be cautious about planting it. | Kris Kupsch - Malanda, QLD 18-Jan-2008
We know this tree as a Capulin. We think it's like eating sugar cubes. Dies at temps below -2C. Short lived around 10yrs. | Edward Jenkins - Mount Morgan, QLD 24-Sep-2008
This berries are called cherry (malay spelling - ceri) in Malaysia Children obsessed with this fruit. Always pluck / picking falling fruits from the ground. They'll eat it | Jenkins Peterson - Selangor, MAL 18-Oct-2008
The panama berry is not listed on the DPI's list of weeds. Also a search of the DPI site and the EPA site (which runs queensland herbarium) shows up nothing. Panama Berry was absent from a government list of hundreds of "potential" weeds. | Rosa Long - Cairns, QLD 05-Jan-2009
Is it able to grow in melbourne? i'm just worried it's low frost tolerant | Tara Emmerson - Vermont South, VIC 15-Jan-2009
The leaves from panama berry can also used for cough medicine! We just have to clean the leaves first, soaked it on water and boiled it. The excess water from the leaves is the one we drink three times a day to cure if we are coughing. | Nad - Jakarta, IND 14-Feb-2009
Dear Rosa, if interested look me up, we can discuss this on email. I dont know of any naturalised specimens in the subtropics though. regards Kri | Kristopher Kupsch - Burringbar, NSW 26-May-2009
The plant is very easy to propergate under a 400w grow light berrys taste like fairy floss | My Nursery - Maryborough, QLD 13-Oct-2009
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