Fruit description: Big orange fruit, which is sweet-sour in flavor.
Flowers: Produces an beautiful profusion of star shaped purple flowers all year.
Growing conditions: Prefers shade or semi-shade, in a cool to tropical climate. Naranjilla has soft purple hairs and spikes on all parts of the plant. Very ornamental with 45cm long colorful leaves.
Uses: Eat fresh, jams or juice,
Medicinal uses:
Pollination requirements: Self-Pollinating.
Harvest time All year.
Plant relatives Cape Gooseberry, Tamarillo, Chillis and are also related to capsicums and more distantly to tomatoes and eggplants.
Special features:
Grown by method: Seed Grown Pot size: 140mm
Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 1.5 metres high by 1.5 metres wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 1.5 metres high by 1.5 metres wide if Planted in the Ground.