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Panama Berry 
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 | None in stock | 
| Height | Frost tol. | Pollination req'd | Evergreen/Deciduous | Harvest period |
| 10 | Low | No | Evergreen | All year round |
We welcome your Tips on Panama Berry. Share Your Tip.
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
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