Here's a great cherry substitute for warmer climates called the Barbados cherry or Acerola or West Indian cherry. It's a ...

To wrap it up, if you are looking for a fruit tree that is low maintenance, heavy bearing, good for you, needing very little maintenance. You may want to give the Barbados cherry a try.

For example, leaving a single trunk, it can grow into a small tree about 9 feet tall. With less trimming, Barbados cherry grows into a bushy shrub. If you plant several in a row, you create a hedge.

Barbados cherry trees are drought-resistant, but to ensure better fruit quality and keep root nematodes at bay, they should be watered regularly and offered full sun exposure.

A reader asked if Barbados cherry trees — native to Mexico and the West Indies — could be cultivated in Lakeland. She’d heard that the species (Malpighia emarginata) bears 1-inch fruit with ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ. — iTi Tropicals has formulated a puree and concentrate from acerola fruit. Acerola fruit is commonly referred to as the Barbados cherry or West-Indian cherry and provides a ...