Myrtaceae FAMILY

Eugenia cerasiflora

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Eugenia cerasiflora is an evergreen shrub or small tree with an elongated crown growing 6 - 20 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be 30 - 50cm in diameter[ 625 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2009 ISBN 85-86714-34-4 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of materials. It has potential for use as a pioneer species in the reforestation of native forest.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - south and east Brazil.

HabitatDense, humid, Atlantic rain forest, usually in secondary formations on valley bottoms and low slopes where the soil is deep and drainage slow[ 625 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2009 ISBN 85-86714-34-4 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ].