Growing fruit trees indoors can transform even the coziest corners of your home into a verdant personal orchard. Even better, ...

Here's a great cherry substitute for warmer climates called the Barbados cherry or Acerola or West Indian cherry. It's a known "superfood" due to its antioxidant qualities and amazing vitamin C ratio.

Mainland cherries do not grow well here, but the acerola cherry is a small tropical tree that grows very well in Hawaii. The cherry it produces is rather tart but contains loads of vitamin C.

Call it what you will: Barbados cherry, acerola, West Indian cherry, Puerto Rican cherry, Jamaican cherry or — to be exact — Malpighia glabra. Floridians usually call it Barbados cherry… ...

The tree is the Barbados cherry. Its scientific name is Malpighia glabra but is also commonly called Acerola, or wild crape myrtle. I was recently introduced to this tree by an Atlantic Beach ...

acerola tree and fruit. getty. The Barbados cherry, otherwise known as Bajan cherry, Acerola or West Indian cherry is one of the richest natural sources of Vitamin C in existence— around 50 to ...

Now let’s talk about the fruit. The pink and yellow blossoms yield lots of glossy red fruit that are between ½ to 1 inch in diameter. The fruits contain 2-3 three seeds similar to a seeded grape.