The Strawberry Tree - Produces fruit that looks like cherries and tastes like cotton candy!
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2022
- In this video, Logee's horticulturist and third generation owner, Byron Martin, discusses the Strawberry Tree or Jamaican Cherry. This fast grower produces an abundance of small red fruit with a sweet and unique flavor. The flowers resemble strawberry flowers and the fruit resembles little red cherries, hence its common names, Strawberry Tree and Jamaican Cherry. It fruits nearly all year long and the green immature fruit ripens quickly, changing to a solid red color within a day. In containers, it needs to be periodically pruned or headed back to maintain size. This is a wonderful tropical fruit for pots that has been mostly overlooked until now.
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We have these trees everywhere back home in the Philippines. I spent a good amount of my childhood eating these tiny fruit. It grows everywhere coz the birds love them and they spread the trees. They fruit all year round and the tree grows very fast. 😊
I live in Florida and have this tree. Fruit is delicious. It got hit during a hurricane one year and cracked the trunk and I thought it was a goner. I cut it back and it bounced back beautifully. Definitely one to add to your yard in warmer climates.
This tree grow like crazy in VN. They can come up from the runner and multiply easily. I spent a lot of time around these trees either to pick the fruits or to climb up to play hide and seek. Memories!
We called it Kersen in Indonesia. I have huge tree of this in my backyard. Fruiting all year long.
I have this plant/tree growing next to our apartment, next to a storm drain, as a weed. In an 'inaccessible' zone, so the city doesn't care.
The fruits taste awesome.
I have never seen such a fruit anywherey but I go so interested to try :)
Thanks for the video!
In Southeast Asia , they’re growing wild and some are growing for shade and kids like me love snacking on them. Really miss its fruits.!
I used to eat that a lot back in Indonesia. Thanks for the video & Please upload as often as you can. I really love what you are all doing with the plants
Thank you - more on the way!
I have one of these here in Hawaii. We love it! Very tasty fruit
From my searching for this tree I found there are more than one kind of tree called "strawberry tree", I'm glad you mentioned it's other nickname of "Jamaican cherry", as well as the scientific name. Also, good to know it can do well potted in a 7 gal. pot. Thanks!
I’ve been looking at this tree for a little while. After the video I decided to buy it. I will care for it in a container and bring it indoors for the winter. I’m super excited to see how it does. Thanks for the info!
They are a great tree. The fruit is delicious and the tree has a very pretty growth pattern. I did have one die from the cold here in Florida so you do have to be mindful of that. I am in central Florida on the gulf.
I remembered as a child, we have this same plant/tree back in my country Thailand & Laos. Taste pretty good 👍🏼
We also have those here in the Philippines. we call them Manzanitas aka Aratilis. In our province in Pampanga, we call it Saresa. 😊
Talok, Carsen, Widoro you name it! I love it.
In Indonesia, we eat the fruits or have the leaves as tea to treat diabetes or cancer 😊
I have gotten two muntingia calabury seedlings before and they both died after a few weeks and they were hard to keep alive, they seem to be very delicate while they’re seedlings
This plant is everywhere in South East Asia!
I have two Jamaican Cherry trees in my yard. They both produce well. My only concern is my trees have several yellow leaves. I’m not sure if I’m over watering. I live in South Florida and normally this is our rainy season. How often should I be fertilizing the trees. Mine are buried in the ground.
In sri lanka u can find this tree mostly in the city side, me and my friends used to eat this fruit in our childhood, we called it , jam kaii or jam fruit
I can’t wait to get one. I tried from seed this summer but nothing sprouted.
Do young plants have a hard time keeping fruit? Mine is just over a year old and flowering but they fall off after blooming. I might be underfeeding it.
May have to add this to all the hibiscus I've bought from you guys!
Good idea! :)
www.logees.com/strawberry-tree-muntingia-calabura.html
I need this tree
I am in Puerto Rico and I've been visiting a horse stable to get the horse manure for gardening and there's two trees down there that appear to me to be identical to this does strawberry tree.
No one at the stable knew if they were edible or not but I just tried one and I are very sweet and the tree has the jagat leaves like is being shown here.
I brought some fruit home and the tip of a branch to see if my neighbor was familiar with the tree but he's not home today.
I guess I will be trying to save some seeds out of this fruit to try and start myself some of these trees.
Nearly every thing I have growing here I started from seeds.
in Indonesia we call it "kersen".
I have recently acquired a strawberry tree called arbutus unedo and it looks different from the one you're showing us. It's evergreen and hardy. I'm told its fruit though attractive are unfortunately tasteless but can be made into jams.
Philippines we have that everywhere it’s called “manzanitas”
I know these by the name of, Guayaba Fresa ( strawberry guava )
I would say it tastes like vanilla yogurt 😋
In the Philippines we call it mansanitas meaning small apples
This is called Aratilles in the Philippines
They taste like figs to me. Mine is in the ground in USDA zone 10. It’s under 6’ and keeps flowering/ fruiting but it barely grows any new branches or leaves. It hasn’t gotten any taller or wider in a year. I’m a bit worried it might fruit itself to death.
I want to buy this plant
We currently have some available here:
www.logees.com/strawberry-tree-muntingia-calabura.html