A Barbados cherry is a source of berries, shelter, nectar and nesting sites. This versatile plant provides bed and breakfast for birds, bees, raccoons, deer and butterflies.

Dwarf Barbados cherry (Malpighia glabra ‘Nana') deserves more praise. Without coaxing or pampering, this 3- to 4-foot native produces small pink and white flowers late spring, summer and fall ...

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… ...

Another name for the plant, Barbados cherry, hints that it is native to Central America and the Caribbean. Hawaiian sugar planters brought acerola to Hawaii around 1946 as a commercial crop to ...

West Indian Cherry was introduced to Florida in the late 1880s by Pliny Reasoner, ... One of my favorite fruit-bearing plants is Acerola, also known as Barbados Cherry, ...

The Barbados cherry is native to the West Indies in the Caribbean. While not a true cherry, its “cherry-like” fruit has been grown in the southern half of Florida for years.

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.

The ultimate size that any plant attains depends on a number of factors the most important of which are soil, water, light and temperature. (the genes of your individual plant count too). In ...

The standard Barbados cherry is a larger version that reaches 7 feet. The plants grow from South Texas to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. Advertisement ...

The Barbados cherry is native to the West Indies in the Caribbean. While not a true cherry, its “cherry-like” fruit has been grown in the southern half of Florida for years.