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Jabuticaba! Brazilian grape tree. Plinia cauliflora

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Posted 3 years 3 months ago #65175
That's nice, where are you from?
250u$ is a lot of money, but I don't know how much those trees worth where you live, shouldn't mind it if you're happy tho...
I'm from Brazil, we have quite a few here in my the neighborhood, you did a nice job, it really looks like a real size one.
We have a really big one that my grampa planted. I'm trying to get a sprout from it...
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Posted 3 years 3 months ago #65176
I am in Mexico! I think the fact that i'm white might have raised the price a little bit, but they are not common here.

Thanks! We will see how it grows!
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Posted 3 years 3 months ago #65184
Alblas: Jabuticaba is know for very poor rooting, with many saying it cannot be propagated from cuttings or airlayering. (This does not stop me, I took cuttings last summer, still green).

Get some fruit from that tree and sow the seed. They are supposed to grow VERY easily from seed.
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Posted 1 year 4 months ago #78745
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Posted 1 year 4 months ago #78794
For me is always cool to see a flat top like that, not a common style out there.

It's not the first Jabuticaba I see on this style, and somehow it seems to me that it matches the style, even being from a totally different environment when compaired with Acacias.


Take a look on this video! You'll like it.
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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #79031
in the tropical dry forest there are several species that have similar bark to jabuticaba and have broom style growth. Caesalpinia sclerocarpa for example has bark like a jabuticaba and in the wild they have a broom style canopy. I am actually trying to mimick some C. sclerocarpa trees i know in the wild in Mexico
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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #79032
what a great tree!
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