Jabotikaba berry tree - properties of plant and fruits, photos. How to grow jabotics at home? How to buy jabikabi seeds for aliexpress?

What is especially a jabotikab tree? How are its fruits useful? How to grow jabotikaba at home?

Jabotkaba (jabotikaba) is a very unusual plant. It is unusual not only its name, but also the appearance. The flowers of this tree bloom and are tied into berries not on branches, as is usually the case in other plants, but on the barrel. You can grow this miracle at home, its seeds are sold on Aliexpress.

Jabotikaba berry plant - how it looks: photo

In Central and Eastern Europe, many have never heard of Jabotikaba and, moreover, did not see this amazing tree of the Mirotov family, the clan of Pliny. Meanwhile, in the tropics it grows and cultivates as a fruit tree.

1. Originally Jabotikab from South America. The natural area of \u200b\u200bits growth is the territories 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. They learned to grow Jabotikabu in pots, like a room decorative plant.
3. The berry tree has many names. Official, botanical, - Myrciaria Caulifloria (Latin). The Portuguese plant is called Jaboticaba, hence the Russian translation - Zhabotikaba, Zhabutikaba, Jabotikaba. In Western Europe, it is known under the English Brazilian Graph Tree (Brazilian grape tree), possibly due to the similarity of jabotikaby berries with grapes.

Seeing once a flowering or fruiting jabotikub in nature, you will never forget this amazing tree:

• in height it reaches 10-12 meters
• the life expectancy of a tree is 100 years, that is, it is a century
• due to slow growth, a young jabotika looks like a bush with delicate leaves, later the stem is village
• the leaves of the Brazilian grape tree are long and narrow, 10 cm by 2 cm, lanceolate, leathery, their glossy surface
• the color of the leaves is light green
• since the plant belongs to the family of the world, a characteristic smell comes from its leaves

Twice a year, the jabotikab blooms, and the most interesting begins: white flowers with 60 or more stamens literally put on the barrel and the main branches of the plant. It seems that they are covered with white moss. An exotic plant takes on an alien creation. After some time, pollinated flowers are tied into fruits with a diameter of 3-5 cm, similar in shape and color similar to grape. The dense peel of the berries has a dark-beard or dark-purple coloring, the pulp is white. When Jabotikaba bears fruit, it seems that thousands of large beetles crawl on the trunks of wood.
The ripening time is 3-4 weeks, they become sweet and suitable for eating.

IMPORTANT: During the flowering and fruiting jabotikaba fruiting, it becomes very attractive to tourists. Many take a photo of the gardens of the Brazilian grape tree, they are really impressive. According to several versions, jabotikaba is included in the top-100, the top-10 and top 5 of the most unusual plants in the world.

An interesting fact: a phenomenon when flowers and fruits appear on the trunk and main branches of the plant, in botany is called caulifloria. In addition to jabikaba, Caulifloria is found in cocoa, persimmons, Jackfrut and more familiar to the eastern Europeans of sea buckthorn. But these plants look less impressive.

Jabotikaba berry tree - properties of plant and fruits

If for Europeans, jabotikaba is a curiosity, for the inhabitants of the tropics of South America it is a source of delicious and healthy berries.

1. The Brazilian grapes are in a time twice a year. Berries are tied green, but after 3-4 weeks they acquire a characteristic dark color.
2. The whitish flesh of fruits is similar to jelly. There are seeds inside.
3. To the taste of the berries of jabotabi really resembles grapes, but they are characterized by sourness.

Important: export of jabikabi berries is difficult, since in a torn form of their shelf life is very small - only 3 days.

Jabikaba berries as a food product are dietary and valuable. Calorie content 100 g - only about 50 kcal. The composition contains plant sugars, rubber and lysine amino acids, ascorbic acid and other vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, zinc and other minerals, as well as tannins.

IMPORTANT: Jabikaba do not eat peel of berries, since it has a high percentage of tannin content. It is necessarily removed before the use of berries in raw form or their heat treatment.

How do Brazilian grapes use in cooking? Here are several ways:

• the berries are eaten raw: they simply squeeze the fingers of the pulp from the peel right in their mouth
• cook jelly, jam, marmalade
• boil salads and meat
• make a filling for baking
• sluggish and dry for storage

After 3 days, the torn berries of jabotics begin to wander. This property was found: they make tinctures, wine and liquors.

Inspired on alcohol or dried "Brazilian grapes" is used for medicinal purposes. Jabotikaba treats:

• respiratory diseases and respiratory organs: tonsillitis, asthma, bronchitis of various genesis
• viral diseases
• diarrhea
• diseases of the cardiovascular system

Jabikaba berries have hemostatic, detoxification and anti -cancer properties.

How to grow jabotika at home from seeds? Care, watering jabikabi at home

As mentioned above, they learned to grow jabotikabu in pots:

• seeds
• vaccination

Due to slow growth, the plant is used as bonsai.

Those who have decided to get homemade jabotyba need to be very patient, because after planting seeds the first fruits will give the plant after at least 10 years. And all this time he will need careful care.

1. Planting seeds of jabikaba is necessary in a container or a small pot.
2. Exot does not like acidic and salted soil, so a mixture of peat and coconut fiber is prepared for it or they buy ready -made soil for tropical plants in the store.
3. Djabikaba dishes should have drainage holes from below.
4. Brazilian grapes sprout for 30 days at a temperature of + 23 degrees.

When jabikabi seeds germinate, young plants will need special care.

1. Zabotikaba loves the sun, but is afraid of direct sunlight. It is better to put it at the window, in partial shade. In winter, with a short light bottom, a tree may need a highlight.
2. Water indoor jabotikaba regularly, twice in weeks or as the upper layer of soil fell.
3. 3-4 times a year, the plant is fed with a complex mineral composition for tropical exotics.
4. As Jabotikabu grows, they are transplanted into a larger pot. The procedure is tolerated well. If there is no way to make a transplant, it is quite possible to cut the root system by one third.
5. If the “Brazilian grapes” are grown for bonsai, its crown is molded: dry branches are removed, and they shortened too much.

Important: in winter, at a temperature below + 15 degrees, a jacket can drop the leaves. In the spring they will appear again.

How to order and buy jabikabi seeds for aliexpress on the catalog?

Wanted to grow an exot to Zhabotikabu at home? Much is already known about the features of planting and caring for the plant. It remains to find seeds.
And this is not so simple, you can’t buy them in any flower store. Therefore, the flower growers were adapted to order them on the Internet, on the website of the Chinese trading platform Aliexpress.

Important: those who still do not know that on Ali you can buy literally everything, is recommended to read the article " The first order for Aliexpress" and Buyer guide, register on the site and after carefully study its catalog.
To buy jabikaba seeds, you need to enter a request in English in the search window on the main page of Aliexpress " jabuticaba».

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.

VIDEO: Zhabotikaba (jabotikab) Brazilian tree, which has fruit on the trunk of a tree