Acerola - Florida Sweet
Malpighia emarginataAcerola Cherries
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Specifications of Acerola - Florida Sweet
Preferred Climate Tropical, SubtropicalLearn About Climate Zones
Grown From CuttingLearn About Propagation Methods
Max Height (when in the ground with good conditions) 2-5m
Plants required to Pollinate 1 (Self Pollinating)Learn about Pollination
Can it Handle Frosts? Sometimes
Amount of leaves in Winter? All Leaves (Evergreen)
Suitability in Pots Yes
Water Requirements Moderate Watering
Fruiting/Harvest Months January, February, March, April, September, October, November, December
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Customer Tips & Reviews Acerola - Florida Sweet
Acerola - Florida Sweet
In South East QLD near the sea, in a raised bed of soil and compost with the occasional handful of chook poo pellets thrown in, very healthy plant, but the fruit fly hit every cherry multiple times, birds pinch em too, we don't get any... :-(
WOLLONGONG WEST, NSW, Australia
Cherries are delicious, but our winters aren't cold enough. I'd like to try and grow this as an alternative
Acerola - Florida Sweet
Prune lightly 1week after planting to get vigorous growth,feed with any Nik and blood n bone at same time ,when planting put 10 lt of coconut coir in bottom of hole,mulch heavy and water well .i planted several in the middle of summer itt loves the heat
KOONGAL, QLD, Australia
This tree is just planted in a pot with cheap potting mix and horse manure. I also give it daily watering and weekly worm castings just as it is getting started. The tree is growing insanely fast, it doesn't seem to mind water. In fact, the more water ...
COBURG, VIC, Australia
When I first received this it lost all its leaves within a few weeks and I thought it wouldn't make it, but then it regrew more leaves and since then it's been growing very quickly. It's now winter and it has lost a few leaves, and quite a few leaves...
TULLY, QLD, Australia
Nice fruit but only tasted one so far. It was a sweet sour taste but not overly sour and quite pleasant. Grows well in tropics but not much fruit yet.
WOOLLOONGABBA, QLD, Australia
Hopefull this year the fruit will set. I have had a few small pink flowers but they haven't set yet. I think it is a good looking plant. The leaves are quite small and it seems to really like the pot it is growing in.
Acerola - Florida Sweet
Tree 4 years old, masses cherries, crops 5 times year! Loves downpours & flowers immediately. delicious juicy fruit. 3kg each crop!!!
Acerola - Florida Sweet
I have had an Acerola - Florida Sweet for about four years now. Made some Jam the other day and it is very, very nice!
Acerola - Florida Sweet
I have three. Always good, repeat crops summer in Dry tropics Seldom water in winter. I use bore water, medium sodicity. Green ants live in trees - no pests or disease. Bought one Florida sweet 20 yrs ago. Other 2 are cuttings.Tolerant of alkalinity.
Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet
Lovely sweet fruit but leaves look a bit sparse. Have had lots of grasshoppers this year maybe it's them.
Acerola - Florida Sweet MT
Keep pruned low for ease of harvest. We have 5 fifteen yr old bushes and eat only a tiny %. They hang over the lawned verge, so we eat mostly those that have dropped, as do the passing neighbours and children. We squeeze them for a divine juice.
Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet
Survived one day around 47 deg and two weeks of temps over 38 deg. never looked back. Probably does make a nice drink and jam - if the fruit ever got to the kitchen, the amount pickedseems to diminish rapidly on the walk down to the house.
Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet
3 years Plant looking very good in pot lots of flowers but, not fruit yet hopping soon.
Bellmere, QLD, Australia
I prefer to call it the Barbados cherry and there's lots of good and some ordinary points about this large shrub.Firstly the ordinary: The plant itself is rather fickle and prone to stem breakage at the base of the shrub which isn't too bad due to it's...
Cringila, NSW, Australia
Update: Found its feet, flourishing now, and over 2m high! In fairly clay soil tooStill finding its feet, but OK
Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet
Very easy to grow, looks after itself. Fruits most of the year, with just 2-3 months break over winter. Has enough fruit for our family of three, our dog and fruit bats. We pruned it very heavily last winter and now it started to flower again.
Brighton, QLD, Australia
This little tree flowers and fruits non stop through spring, summer and autumn. Lots of fruit! My child loves it and eats some every day.Fruit has to be eaten straight after picking as it does not keep too well.Grows very fast, fruited a few months aft...
Bardon, Qld, Australia
Tropcial cherry. Needed a lot of watering when first planted, always wilting, but I think that is way it is meant to look. It is also attacked by possum.
Keperra, QLD, Australia
Very tough tree. Can be fairly easily pruned to a smaller size. Very pretty masses of flowers throughout the warmer months and multiple crops of fruit.
CAWONGLA, NSW, Australia
Bought this lovely little plant years ago at Daleys. Soon after I brought it home it fruited, and was delicious. The following Winter, or the one after that, it was frosted, and now, years later, I am still waiting for it to fruit again.
Wakeley, NSW, Australia
High hopes for this plant. I tried it in Vietnam and it was a nice treat.
CARLINGFORD, NSW, Australia
Produces a profusion of small pink flowers followed by tasty soft red fruit. Some leaf loss in late winter, early spring due to cold Sydney winter. Very shallow rooted, so will benefit from staking to avoid toppling over. Requires good watering in dry ...
Clayton, VIC, Australia
Very easy to look after, the more water it gets, the more flowers itgives. Lot of Cute pink flowers appear in Summer. Red fruits ready toeat out of hand in about a month or adding to fruit punch. This fruithas very high vitamin C content. Fruits are ...
Kingscote, SA, Australia
Early days yet. Put on good growth late last summer. 2009 winter its first, will survive but has dropped most leaves. Earwigs love it. We get no frosts so it should be OK.
Winmalee, NSW, Australia
Grew well during warmer months but could never get it past August. We get no frost
LESCHENAULT, WA
Bumper crop this year (2010) flowered in two big flushes thru summer and the fruit delicious. Tastes like a cross between apple and raspberry, is firm and juicy. Birds like it too. I like it best when it turns quite dark red.It's a very undemanding pl...
Unanderra, NSW, Australia
Moderate grower, straggly looking but tough tree. Fruits a few times throughout the year.
Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet
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)
Acerola Cherry
Acerola combined with orange makes a great juice. And its jam tastes fantastic.
Acerola Cherry
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.
Acerola Cherry
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.
Bankstown , Sydney, NSW, Australia
Acerola Cherry
Is World Champion in Vitamin C amounts - refer to www.nal.usda.gov... ( see below )
Acerola Cherry
Pick early ,before the birds and fruit fly then ripen inside the house, when green has turned to yellow.
