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Nursery Direct
Acerola Cherry
Malpighia glabra
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Acerola Cherry - Malpighia glabra
Malpighia glabra is one of the few fruiting plants that behaves like a hedge shrub. It makes a dense, small leaved bush that clips readily, flushes pink flowers several times through the warm months and follows each flush with bright red fruit within weeks. The fruit is famously among the richest natural sources of vitamin C, though the horticultural appeal is just as much the repeat cropping: a warm climate garden can pick from the same plant three or four times a year.
Why Acerola Cherry
Repeat cropping: Multiple flushes through spring, summer and autumn spread the harvest instead of dumping it in one week.
Exceptional vitamin C: The fresh fruit carries very high ascorbic acid levels, which is what drives its commercial use.
Clips like a hedge: Small dense foliage and a naturally bushy habit make it one of the easiest edibles to shape.
Fast to first crop: Plants fruit young, often within a season or two of planting out.
Frost tender: It needs a frost free or near frost free position, so it belongs in subtropical and tropical gardens or warm coastal pockets.
Ideal Applications
Edible hedge: Planted in a row and trimmed lightly, it screens and crops at the same time.
Subtropical courtyard: Its modest size fits a small warm climate garden where a mango or avocado never would.
Large container: It fruits reliably in a big pot, which allows frost protection in marginal districts.
Bird attracting bed: Any fruit left on the bush is quickly found by local birds.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 1.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3m
Best Planting Season: Spring through to early autumn in warm soil
Soil & Drainage: Free draining soil with organic matter; it tolerates sandy and limestone soils but not waterlogging
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly through the first warm season, since flower and fruit set both drop away if the plant dries out badly. Mulch to 75mm around the root zone, feed lightly after each fruiting flush, and tip prune after harvest to keep the bush compact.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 4m
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun for best cropping, tolerating light shade
Native to: Tropical Americas, from southern Mexico and the Caribbean to northern South America
Flower Colour: Pink to pale lilac, in repeated flushes through the warm months
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







