Golf ball size???? I'd like to see that. I saw a fairly large fruited Jaboticaba up at Gene Joyner's place in West Palm Beach.....but no where near golf ball sized fruits. Any pictures of this?

Harry

Nice find! Update us on the progress of it, especially the fruit development.

Hey Harry,

I wish, I really have no information on this Jaboticaba other than from then guy working at Exotica Nursery who sold it to me. Jack, who also posts to this forum and lives in California, has a Jaboticaba which produces golf ball size Jaboticabas. I'm not sure which variety, but folks apparetly thought they were plums the first time they saw them.

- Jacob

dang it!!! I remember reading some older posts regarding the massively large jaboticabas grown in CA but can't seem to find the link...you're killin' me Jacob :)

Tim

Hi,

Maybe you are talking about Myrciaria coronata? See picture below.

Tomas

Here is a link that might be useful:

Jabuticaba/joboticaba is native to Brazil, and I have never heard of a Paul Thompson variety.
Jabuticabas already have botanical names and common names. It would be helpful to identify the botanical name of this variety.
Otherwise, we may get confused with newly created names to describe varieties already identified.

Found it! sort of... Jack's post was on cloudforest, not GW :(

Jack's post on cloudforest

Tim

Tomas & Berto - are the big eyes characteristic of Myrciaria coronata? Don't recall seeing that from all the jaboticabas I've eaten (unknown var), and biggest fruits were about the size of a nickel :)

Tim

Ooops, Correction Jabuticaba/Jaboticaba.
The photo from claudforest looks like a myrciaria coronata which in Brazil is called jabuticaba coroada or jabuticaba-de-coroa. Due to its whitish circle that looks like a crown (coroa) on one ends of the fruit.
Take a look at this large jabuticaba fruit I ate in Brazil. It is a very large fruit,and in the northeast Brazil, this variety is called "Cambuca". Do not get confused with the real cambuca (plinia edulis) which is a yellow fruit.

Hello Friends,

So what do you guys think? Aren't Jack's Jaboticaba fruit the most amazing you have ever seen? Like I said, golf ball size fruit mistaken for plums.

- Jacob

I, for one, am still speechless......now moving to dumbfounded and desirous. I think there must be photoshopping at play here or maybe smoke and mirrors....except I don't see any smoke. Amazing!

Harry

Hi Tim,

Even though I grow both, I don't have any fruiting jaboticaba tree myself - it will be many many years from now. But I just wanted to mention that Myrciaria coronata is not the same species as the regular jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora). A friend of mine in Brazil told me this about M. coronata: "The fruits have a big dot at the end, a crown (corona) and are delicious"

Tomas

Harry, no photoshopping or smoke and mirrors, the real thing, and they taste good. I believe his fruits on the branches as opposed to the trunk (similar to Robert's?).

-Ethan

Thanks Jacob- now you have added another thing we all "need"!

Ethan - do you prefer the taste of M. coronata or M. cauliflora more?

Tim

Sorry Tim,
I believe I've only tasted M. cauliflora. Not 100% sure but I believe Jack's fruits, though large, are not always that big, maybe a good crop/year??? He does on rare occasions post on GW.

-Ethan

Jaboticaba fruit size is dependent upon water uptake. So, in order for them to be consistently golf ball sized, you'd want to make sure that it gets a lot of water for time period between fruit set and harvest. The fruit on my regular jaboticaba will vary from the size of a dime to about the size of a 50 cent piece depending on how much water it gets.

Jeff

Hello Friends,

Hey Tim - Thanks for finding the Thread that Jack posted a while back. Those fruits of his are incredible. I have a Green Sapote that Jack brought to my house that started at about 2' feet tall and is now about 9' feet tall.

Ethan - I know you have tasted Jack's Jaboticabas but have you tasted others? If so, from where?

Thanks,

Jacob

Jacob, I believe I've only tasted Jack's, Exotica's and some at the CRFG tasting table, not very many.

-Ethan

The jaboticaba exists! Not photoshopped or anything done to make it appear larger. Samples were at the 2008 Festival of Fruit at Fullerton arboretum for tasting. Local members of CRFG enjoyed the fruit also. Seedlings from the fruit were donated to members of the San Luis Obispo CRFG. Slow growing, it'll be some time to get results. We have had several years of similar fruit, however interestingly, no flowers, no fruit this year. Strange year with strange effects on a variety of fruiting plants. So what was specially done to create large fruits? Planted, watered, some fertilizer (15-15-15). Plant is hardy to freezes, in fact has had NO damage at 19 degrees (which wiped out far too many plants). I do believe Ethan has a seedling, check with him in 10 -15 years.

I have a few seedlings and a 5gal that you gave me Jack, they are some of my prized possessions.

thanks again,
-Ethan