Useful food plant with a spreading open form, this native of South America produces a rounded, evergreen shrub to 5m. Once established it is a useful drought-tolerant shrub producing edible green fruit.
- Type
- Exotic
- Maintenance
- Low
- Water use
- Moderate
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Medium Trees & shrubs 3 - 7 metres
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Moist tropical, Semi-arid with summer rain, Moist temperate with hot summers, Arid interior, Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Soils
- Sandy, Loam, Clay
- Tolerances
- Frost
- Regions
- Central Highlands Garden, Yarra Valley Water plants, Water efficient plants
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- Spring
- Gardens
- Mediterranean, Backyard, Nature strip, Hardy