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Garcinia gardneriana
Achacha (Garcinia gardneriana, also called bacupari) is an evergreen tropical fruit tree from South America, grown commercially for its edible fruit. Given wet tropical conditions, warmth and a sheltered site, it is a rewarding tree for frost-free gardens.
Garcinia gardneriana, the bacupari, is an evergreen, dioecious species of the genus Garcinia. It is distributed throughout South America's Amazon Basin and Atlantic Forest, from Colombia and Venezuela to Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. and produces fruit with edible arils.
A Garcinia species is commercially cultivated for fruit in Bolivia, Brazil, and northern Australia under the names achachairú and achacha. The plant is commonly called Garcinia humilis, but is more likely Garcinia gardneriana.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Garcinia gardneriana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
