Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eugenia
Species: uniflora

Sample code: EGY-MBG-000626
English name: Brazil Cherry, Barbados cherry, Pitanga
Arabic name: اوجينيا
Native: Brazil
Country: Brazil

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Plant growth regulators (PGR): Rare

Evergreen shrub 2-4 m tall or small tree to 7 m young leaves pink to bronze or dark red, mature leaves dark green, opposite, simple, ovate to lanceolate 2-7 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, apex obtuse to shortly acuminate flowers creamy white, fragrant fruit succulent, pendulous berry, 2-4 cm in diameter, depressed-globose, conspicuously 8-ribbed, commonly containing 1-3 seeds, though it can have a single large seed or up to 7 small seeds.

Eugenia braziliana (L.) Aubl., Plinia rubra L.

Texture: Chalk Clay Loam Organic

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Fertility: High

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Drainage: Well drained

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Salinity: Intermediated

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Water Sources: Humidity Moderate Water

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Climates: Subtropics Tropical

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Lights: Full sun Light shade

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Propagation: Seeds, cuttings

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Flowering time: Spring

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zone: 9b : 11

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pH: 5- 6.5

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Status: Least concern

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Life span: Perennial

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Habits: Shrub Small tree

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Sample Type: Introduced - cultivated

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Collecting Sources: Botanical garden

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Uses of plant: Beverages Food Fruits Medicinal Ornamental

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Plant Populations density: Cultivated

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Vegetation types: Evergreen shrub

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pH: Mild acid Mild alkaline Neutral

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