Grumichama

Eugenia brasiliensis · Tropical fruit

40 pairings

Grumichama (Eugenia brasiliensis), also called Brazil cherry or grumixama, is a small cherry-like fruit from a slow-growing myrtle-family tree native to the Atlantic coastal forest of southern Brazil. Ripening from green through scarlet to glossy near-black, its soft, melting flesh tastes sweet and mildly aromatic, somewhere between a sweet cherry and a plum.

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UnderripeOverripe

Crimson and firmColoured but still tart and thin-tasting. This is the half-ripe stage Hawaiian cooks put into pie, jam and jelly, where the added sugar carries it.A cooking fruit

ColourDeep crimson going maroon, gloss coming up, red still in patches

FeelFirm but no longer hard, gives a fraction and springs back

Collar and stalkCollar green but relaxed, clean dry scar where the stalk parted

SmellFirst sweetness, only right at the fruit, cherry behind the resin

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What one gives you

72%

Usable yield

about 2.5 g of pulp · seeds out

3.45 g

Typical weight

one specimen

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