Berry tree jabotikaba - properties of plants and fruits, photo. How to grow jabotikabu at home? How to buy jabotikaba seeds on Aliexpress?

What is especially the tree of jabotikaba? What are its benefits? How to grow jabotikabu at home?

Jabotkaba( jabotikaba) is a very unusual plant. Unusually not only its name, but also the appearance. The flowers of this tree are blossoming and tied in berries not on branches, as is usually the case with other plants, but on the trunk. Grow this miracle of nature can be at home, its seeds are sold to Aliekspress.

Berry plant jabotikaba - as it looks: photo

In Central and Eastern Europe, many people have never heard of jabotikabe and, moreover, did not see this amazing tree of the family of Myotovs, the genus Pliny. Meanwhile, in the tropics it grows and is cultivated as a fruit tree.

1. Originally from jabotikaba from South America. The natural area of ​​its growth is the territory of Northern Argentina, South Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. For the sake of valuable berries the plant is also grown in Colombia, Panama, Uruguay, Peru and Cuba.
2. Jabotikabu learned to grow in pots, like a house decorative plant.
3. The berry tree has many names. Official, botanical, - Myrciaria caulifloria( Latin).In Portuguese, the plant is called jaboticaba, hence the Russian translation - jabotikaba, jabutikaba, jabotikaba. In Western Europe, it is known under the English Brazilian Grape Tree( Brazilian grape tree), perhaps because of the similarity of the berries jabotikaba with grapes.

Blooming jabotikaba.

The flowers of the "Brazilian grapes" up to 60 stamens.

Once you see a flowering or fruit-bearing jabotikabu in nature, you will never forget this stunning tree:

• in height it reaches 10-12 meters
• tree life expectancy - 100 years, that is, it is an age-old
• because of slow growth young zhabotikaba is similar to a bushwith delicate leaves, later the stalk rustles
• leaves of the Brazilian grape tree are long and narrow, 10 cm by 2 cm, lanceolate, leathery, their surface is glossy
• leaf color - light green
• since the plant belongs to the familytvoy Mirovyh, from its leaves comes the characteristic smell of

Twice a year, jabotikaba blossoms, and here begins the most interesting: white flowers with 60 or more stamens literally stain the trunk and the main branches of the plant. It seems that they are covered with white moss. Exotic plant takes the form of an alien creation. After some time the pollinated flowers are tied in fruit 3-5 cm in diameter, in shape and color similar to grapes. The dense peel of berries has a dark maroon or dark violet color, the flesh is white. When jabotikaba fructifies, it seems as if thousands of large beetles are crawling on tree trunks.
Fruit ripening time is 3-4 weeks, they become sweet and fit for food.

As you mature, the fruits of the jabotikaba from green turn into dark purple.

Berries literally cling to the trunk of jabotikaba.

Plantations zhabotikaby - a real miracle of nature.

IMPORTANT: During flowering and fruiting, the jabotikaba becomes very attractive for tourists. Many make photos of the gardens of the Brazilian grape tree, they are really impressive. According to several versions, jabotikaba is included in the Top 100, Top 10 and Top 5 most unusual plants in the world.

Interesting fact: the phenomenon, when flowers and fruits appear on the trunk and the main branches of the plant, in botany called caulifloria( caulifloria).In addition to jabotikaba, caulifloria is found in cocoa, persimmons, jackfruit and the more common sea buckthorn for the Eastern Europeans. But these plants look less impressive.

Cowlofloria: jabotikaba, sea buckthorn and cocoa.

Berry tree jabotikaba - properties of plants and fruits

If for Europeans zhabotikaba is a curiosity, for inhabitants of tropics of South America it is a source of tasty and useful berries.

1. Spets "Brazilian grapes" twice a year. The berries are tied in green, but after 3-4 weeks they acquire a characteristic dark color.
2. The whitish fruit pulp is similar to jelly. Inside there are seeds.
3. To taste berry jabotikaba really remind grapes, but they are characterized by acidity.

Jabotikaba berries are "Brazilian grapes".

Fruit of zabotikaba in a cut.

IMPORTANT: The export of jabotikaba berries is difficult, because in the torn form their shelf life is very small - only 3 days.

Berries jabotikaba as a food product dietary and valuable. Caloric content of 100 g is only about 50 kcal. The composition contains vegetable sugars, amino acids tryptophan and lysine, ascorbic acid and other vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, zinc and other minerals, as well as tannins.

IMPORTANT: Skin berries are not eaten with jabotikabas, as there is a high percentage of tannin content in it. It must be removed before consumption of berries in raw form or by their heat treatment.

Gem from berries of dzhabotikaba.

How is "Brazilian grapes" used in cooking? Here are a few ways:

• berries are raw: they simply squeeze the flesh from the peel directly into their mouth
• cook jelly, jam, marmalade
• cook sauces to salads and meat
• make baking stuffing
• dry and dry for storage

After 3 days,dzhabotikaby begin to wander. This property was used: among them, tinctures, wine and liqueurs are made.

Fermentation of berries jabotikaba.

Wine from the fruits of jabotikaba.

The alcohol-based or dried "Brazilian grapes" is used for medicinal purposes. Dzhabotikaba treats:

• respiratory and respiratory diseases: angina, asthma, bronchitis of various origins
• viral diseases
• diarrhea
• cardiovascular diseases

Berries jabotikaba have hemostatic, detoxification and anti-cancer properties.

How to grow jabotikabu at home from the seeds? Care, watering dzhabotikaba at home

As mentioned above, jabotikabu learned how to grow pots:

• seeds
• by grafting

Fruits jabotikaba with seeds.

Because of the slow growth, the plant is used as a bonsai.

Those who have decided to acquire a home zhabotikaboy, you must be very patient, because after planting seeds the first fruits of the plant will give a minimum after 10 years. And all this time he will need a thorough care.

1. Plant the seeds with zabotikaba necessary in a container or a small pot.
2. Exotion does not like sour and saline soil, so a mixture of peat and coconut fiber is prepared for it or a ready-made soil for tropical plants is bought in the store.
3. Dishes for jabotikaba should have drainage holes from below.
4. Seeds of "Brazilian grapes" sprout for 30 days at a temperature of +23 degrees.

Jabotikaba in the pot.

When the seeds of jabotikaba germinate, young plants will require special care.

1. Jabotikaba loves the sun, but is afraid of direct sunlight. It is better to put it at the window, in the penumbra. In winter, with a short daylight, the tree may need lighting.
2. Water the room jabotikab regularly, twice a week or as the top layer of the soil dries.
3. 3-4 times a year the plant is fed with a complex mineral composition for tropical exotics.
4. As the growth jabotikabu transplanted into a larger pot. The procedure is well tolerated. If there is no possibility to make a transplant, it is possible to trim the root system by one third.
5. If the "Brazilian grapes" are grown for bonsai, mold its crown: remove the dry branches, and the overgrown branches are shortened.

Houses zhabotikabu cultivated for bonsai.

IMPORTANT: In winter, at temperatures below +15 degrees, the jabotikaba can discard leaves. In the spring they will appear again.

Fruiting of the house jabotikaba.

How to order and buy seeds jabotikaby for Alyekspress under the catalog?

I wanted to grow exotica zhabotikabu at home? A lot of things are already known about planting and planting care. It remains to find the seeds.
And this is not so easy, they can not be bought in any flower shop. Therefore, the flower growers adapted to order them on the Internet, on the site of the Chinese trading platform Aliekspress.

IMPORTANT: Those who do not yet know that you can buy literally everything on Ali, it is recommended to read the article "The first order for Aliexpress" and the Buyer's Guide, register on the site and after carefully review its catalog.
To buy seeds jabotikaby, you need to enter the query in English "jabuticaba" in the search window on the main page of Aliexpress.

Seeds of jabotikaba on Alyexpress.

Among the products of the category "For home and garden" there are seeds of "Brazilian grapes" at a price of about 50 rubles for 20 pieces.

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