Lilly Pilly – Magenta Cherry – Syzygium paniculatum

Plant family: Myrtaceae

Plant origin: New South Wales

Fruit description: The Magenta Cherry Lilly Pilly produces beautiful round magenta coloured edible berries in profusion. Each contains a small seed. The fruit is crisp and tastes like apple.

Flowers: The flowers are fluffy and creamy white, in dense clusters, produced November, December, and January.

Growing conditions: This beautiful evergreen tree grows to 6 metres. It has dense foliage of small glossy rounded leaves. The new growth is a very attractive coppery pink colour. It makes a handsome shade tree, or can be pruned and trimmed to make an attractive and dense hedge or screen. It can also be grown in a pot, as a lovely feature. The Magenta Cherry Lilly Pilly likes rich, moist, well-drained soil in full or part sunshine. Protect the young tree from frost but the established plant can tolerate frost. It is quite hardy and can tolerate dry conditions and most soil types. It is a perfect choice for coastal gardens as long as it does not get salt spray directly.

Uses: Eat the fruit fresh or in fruit salad, or use it to make delicious jam, sauce, syrup, and desserts.

Medicinal uses:

Pollination requirements: Self-Pollinating.

Harvest time Pick the berries when they are dark purple-pink.

Plant relatives

Special features:

Grown by method: Seed Grown Pot size:

Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 2 metres high by 2 metres wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 6 metres high by 4 metres wide if Planted in the Ground.

Shipping plant pot or planter bag size: