Syzygium, Australian Brush Cherry, Scrub Cherry, Magenta Cherry 'Australis'

Our Brush Cherry came with the house and has been an excellent performer, producing heavy loads of fruit each year. This winter we had s...Read Moreix nights in a row of temperatures in the 20s and we were worried we had lost the plant -- all the leaves did turn brown and fall off. However, we pruned it back heavily this spring and now it has new buds starting all over the trunk. Looks like it will make a complete recovery in time.

New note -- in January 2010, the plant is finally fully recovered from the great freeze. Had a big crop of fruit, so we made lilly-pilly jelly -- quite tasty, sort of cherry-ish with a little spice flavor mixed in. Recipe is all over the web. Of note, following the recipes, which call for 1 cup sugar to 1 cup of juice, ours came out a little tart -- a little more sugar might have been good.

I work in a nursery in Australia before i started there I knew that the berries on a Syzygium were not posionus they are an eidble berry...Read More and make a great jam as well we call it a Lilly Pilly in Australia and it is very common in Queensland

These evergreen trees are quick maturing and look pretty all year round having several flushes of quite spectacular reddish new growth, b...Read Moreear white cotton ball flowers which eventually become cherry sized, shiny, magneta fruit at least twice yearly. The quite palatable fruit is and has been used by the aboriginals as 'bush tucker'. There are now several commercial cultivars of varying sizes. The smaller cultivars are often used as 'topiary' plants here in their native Australia.

I am orginally from Lomita California, and at our local park we had these trees. Every kid in the area used to eat these Berries and No w...Read Moree didnot get sick as a matter of fact I have been very healthy all of my life and I feel these Berries helped out and I really think they should be analized for there genatic makeup to see what kind of helping compounds they are holding. The Berries are not sweet nor tart but have a taste all their own. I went to Dinseyland 1 week ago and while riding the train I was admiring all the plants and when we got to its a small world I saw the plant, that I had looked for, for so many years, so I called Disneyland and I was able to get the name of the plant, and now I need to know where I can buy them, so if anyone know Please email me. babuska477@earthlink.net Thank you Linda