Black Pitangu

🖤 Grow Unique Black Surinam Cherries! 🍒
The Black Pitanga bush produces stunning dark purple-black fruits with a sweet-tart flavor. A beautiful, hardy, and rare ornamental shrub perfect for hedges or pots. Order now! 🌿

🖤 A Rare Twist on a Classic: The Black Pitanga Bush! 🖤

Discover the stunning and unique member of the Surinam Cherry family! Ivy Paradise is excited to offer the Black Pitanga (a rare form of Eugenia uniflora), a captivating shrub that produces extraordinary, deep burgundy-to-black fruits. This variety is a must-have for collectors and food enthusiasts seeking a visually striking and deliciously different berry for their garden.

🍒 Why the Black Pitanga is an Extraordinary Choice:

• Unique Blackish-Purple Fruits: This is the star attraction! While most Surinam cherries are bright red, this variety ripens to a much darker, almost black color with a glossy sheen. The flavor is typically a rich, sweet-tart balance, often considered less resinous and more complex than the common red types. They are perfect for eating fresh, making unique jams, or as a dramatic garnish. 🎨

• Ornamental Superstar: The Black Pitanga is a beautiful plant throughout the year. Its new foliage emerges with a gorgeous coppery-red hue, maturing to a glossy green. The contrast of the dark fruits against the green leaves and the reddish new growth creates a spectacular display.

• Perfect for Hedges and Containers: This shrub has a dense, bushy growth habit, making it an excellent choice for an edible and ornamental privacy hedge. It also thrives in large containers, allowing you to grow it on patios and balconies.

• Hardy and Low-Maintenance: Like its red relatives, the Black Pitanga is remarkably adaptable, drought-tolerant once established, and generally pest-free. It’s an easy-care plant that rewards you generously.

• A Rare Collector’s Item: As a less common color variant, the Black Pitanga is a prized find for gardeners who love to cultivate unique and conversation-starting plants.

🌞 Easy-Care Guide for a Bountiful Harvest:

• Climate: Thrives in subtropical to tropical climates. It can tolerate light frosts but prefers warm, frost-free conditions.

• Sunlight: Prefers Full Sun to Partial Shade. More sun encourages the best fruit production and color development.

• Watering: Water regularly to establish, then it becomes quite drought-tolerant. Well-draining soil is essential.

• Soil: Adaptable to most well-draining soils.

• Harvesting: Fruits are ready when they turn a very dark purple, almost black, and are slightly soft to the touch.

✨ What You’ll Receive:

• 1 Healthy, well-rooted Black Pitanga plant in a nursery pot.

• Detailed care instructions for optimal growth.

• Secure packaging to ensure your plant arrives safely.

Add a touch of dark elegance and unique flavor to your garden!

🎯 Click ‘Add to Cart’ to plant this rare gem today!

Names in Different Languages:
Black Pitanga, Black Surinam Cherry, Brazilian Cherry, Eugenia uniflora, Pitanga-negra, Ñangapirí Negro.