Araza Boi fruit Live Plants (Eugenia Stipitata)

Common Names

Amazonian Pear, Araza, Araca, Araca Boi

Botanical Name

Eugenia Stipitata

General Information

This guava-family fruit is from Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador’s Amazon Rainforest. Araza Boi is a huge, round, smooth, bubbling fruit with a vivid orangish-yellow hue. It ripens in autumn and has a sweet-sour taste and delicious scent. Araza Boi’s scent, flavour, colour, and texture make it versatile.

Taste

It has a sweet-sour taste and delicious scent.

Cultivation

Time to bloom/fruit: 3 years. Moderate upkeep needed. It cannot freeze since this plant is cold-sensitive. Water moderately to minimise root issues and leaf chlorosis.

Benefits

• Rich in vitamins, minerals, nitrogen, and potassium.
• Rich in vitamin C.
• Versatile for ornamentation due to its attractive scent, flavour, colour, and texture.
• Fruit can be made into juices, nectars, marmalades, ice creams, sweets, and jellies.