Cagaita (Eugenia Dyeentrica)

🌼 Grow a Hardy Tropical Treasure! 🍋
The Cagaita tree produces tangy yellow fruits perfect for juices & jellies! A drought-tolerant, sun-loving tree native to Brazil. Beautiful flowers, easy care, and unique fruit. Order now! 🌳

🌼 A Taste of the Brazilian Cerrado: The Cagaita Tree! 🌼

Bring the unique flavors of the Brazilian savanna to your garden! Ivy Paradise is excited to offer the Cagaita tree (Eugenia dysenterica), a hardy and beautiful species native to Brazil’s Cerrado region. Celebrated for its refreshingly tart, yellow fruits and remarkable resilience, this tree is a fantastic choice for gardeners seeking a drought-tolerant exotic that provides both ornamental beauty and a unique culinary experience.

🍋 Why the Cagaita Tree is a Remarkable Choice:

• Refreshingly Tangy Fruit: The Cagaita produces small, yellow, cherry-like fruits with a distinctively acidic and tangy flavor. They are incredibly juicy and are most commonly used to make delicious refreshments, juices, ice creams, jellies, and even a traditional liquor. They are a true taste of the tropics! 🧊

• Exceptional Drought Tolerance: This tree is a survivor, naturally adapted to the harsh conditions of the Cerrado, with its intense sun and seasonal droughts. Once established, it is highly drought-tolerant and sun-loving, making it an excellent choice for water-wise gardens in suitable climates.

• Stunning Ornamental Display: The Cagaita is a beautiful tree year-round. It features smooth, attractive bark and dense foliage. In spring, it is covered in a spectacular show of fragrant, white, puffball-like flowers that attract pollinators, followed by the cheerful bright yellow fruits.

• A Piece of Brazilian Biodiversity: By growing a Cagaita tree, you are cultivating a species that is vital to its native ecosystem and a cherished part of Brazilian cultural heritage. It’s a conversation starter for any garden enthusiast.

• Hardy and Low-Maintenance: Its adaptation to poor soils and dry conditions makes it a relatively low-maintenance tree once it has settled in, requiring minimal care compared to more delicate exotic species.

🌞 Easy-Care Guide for a Thriving Tree:

• Climate: Thrives in tropical and subtropical climates with a distinct dry season. It loves full sun and is highly heat-tolerant.

• Sunlight: Requires Full Sun for the best growth, flowering, and fruiting.

• Watering: Drought-tolerant once established. Water regularly during the first few years, then it will need very little supplemental irrigation.

• Soil: Prefers well-draining, sandy, or rocky soil and is tolerant of acidic, low-fertility conditions, much like its native Cerrado.

• Harvesting: Fruits are typically harvested when they fall naturally from the tree or turn a bright yellow color.

✨ What You’ll Receive:

• 1 Healthy, well-rooted Cagaita (Eugenia dysenterica) tree in a nursery pot.

• Detailed care instructions to help your tree thrive.

• Secure packaging to ensure your plant arrives safely.

Add a resilient, beautiful, and uniquely flavorful tree to your landscape!

🎯 Click ‘Add to Cart’ to plant this piece of Brazil today!

Names in Different Languages:
Cagaita, Cagaita-tree, Eugenia dysenterica, Cagaiteira, Pé-de-cagaita (Portuguese).