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Nursery Direct
Brazilian Cherry
Eugenia uniflora
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Supplied in 110Ltypically 2.5 to 3.5m 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.
Brazilian Cherry - Eugenia uniflora
Brazilian Cherry earns its place in Australian gardens on foliage before fruit: fine glossy leaves that flush copper-bronze with every new growth cycle, on a naturally dense shrub that takes clipping as readily as box. Eugenia uniflora is used here mainly as a hedging and topiary plant, with the ribbed red edible fruit as a bonus rather than the point. It holds a crisp clipped face in a way that few subtropical hedge plants manage, which is why it appears so often in warm-climate formal gardens.
Why Brazilian Cherry
Bronze New Growth: Every flush comes through coppery red before hardening to glossy green, so the hedge changes colour through the year.
Dense Branching: Fine, tight growth gives a solid clipped surface with no gaps.
Takes Hard Clipping: Reshoots readily from old wood, which makes it forgiving to renovate.
Edible Fruit: Ribbed crimson fruit with a tart, resinous flavour follows the small white flowers.
Warm-Climate Reliability: Performs in subtropical humidity where box and buxus substitutes struggle.
Ideal Applications
Formal Hedge: The main use, clipped anywhere from 1m to 3m depending on the setting.
Topiary and Cones: Fine leaf and dense habit suit shaped and trained forms.
Screening Row: Left unclipped it becomes a fast informal screen with fruit for birds.
Edible Landscape: A hedge that also produces a small crop for jams and sauces.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.6 to 0.8m centres for a formal clipped hedge, 1 to 1.2m for an informal screen.
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 3m as individual shrubs or standards.
Best Planting Season: Spring through autumn in warm districts, spring only where winters are cold.
Soil & Drainage: Adaptable to most soils with reasonable drainage. Frost tender when young, so protect new plants through their first winter in cooler areas.
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly through the first summer to drive the dense growth a hedge needs, then reduce to weekly. Tip prune young plants often rather than waiting, feed in spring and midsummer, and note that in warm humid coastal districts birds spread the seed, so keeping the hedge clipped and largely fruit free is the responsible way to grow it.
Plant Details
Height: 3 to 5m unclipped, easily maintained at 1 to 2m
Width: 2 to 3m unclipped
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen, with bronze-red new growth
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Brazil and neighbouring South America
Flower Colour: Small white flowers with prominent stamens, followed by red fruit
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.







