Panama Berry growing and tree

[Mark]

Here's a Panama Berry tree with our first ripe berry (photo somewhat staged because I picked the berry before taking the pic).

I found the taste was like vanilla ice cream or maybe just vanilla but the flavour is quite complex and unexpected so I grabbed the label for a second look and it says the flavour of the berry is fairy floss crossed with strawberry - I suppose it does taste like fairy floss but I can't get strawberry... Overall, it's a nice berry.

The native bees are forever hovering around the flowers so there will never be any issue will pollination!

The berries look a little like small olives and hang individually rather than in clusters. Each Panama berry is about the size of a large blueberry except they're red.

Apparently, it does well in pots and can get up to 7 metres high but responds well to pruning to keep shape and under control for easy harvests.

I'm thinking it could make a rather interesting jam one day once the tree gets bigger. At the moment, it's only about 3 feet tall.

 

[Letsgokate]

Mark can you eat the skin with this berry? They say it take like Vanilla ice cream on Daley's.

 

[Letsgokate]

Looking at getting one of these @Mark but I want to know if you can eat the skin fine as one person was just sucking the fruit out and getting rid of the skin

 

[Mark]

Yes Kate, you eat them just like a regular berry skin and all - Nina is addicted to them - I think they are pretty nice personally but they do taste like fairy floss and I'm not a huge fan of that flavour... still, it's a nice plant to have in the garden.

Give it plenty of water through summer as it can suffer in the heat!