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Nursery Direct
Jaboticaba
Plinia cauliflora
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 75Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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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.
Jaboticaba - Plinia cauliflora
Jaboticaba fruits directly on its trunk and main branches, not on the outer growth, so a cropping tree is covered from ground level upward in white blossom and then in dark, grape like fruit. Plinia cauliflora is slow, dense and multi stemmed, with fine glossy leaves that emerge coppery salmon and smooth mottled bark that peels like a crepe myrtle. Even in the years between crops it earns its place as an evergreen structural tree, which is the honest reason to choose it over faster fruiting alternatives.
Why Jaboticaba
Cauliflorous Fruiting: Flowers and fruit are borne straight on the woody trunk and limbs, an effect no other commonly grown fruit tree in Australia offers.
Mottled Bark: Smooth bark flakes to reveal cream, tan and grey patches, giving strong winter and close range interest.
Coppery New Growth: Each flush emerges salmon to bronze before hardening to deep glossy green.
Multiple Crops: In warm humid districts an established tree can flower and fruit more than once a year.
Dense Habit: Naturally full to the base, so it screens as well as it fruits and takes clipping if required.
Ideal Applications
Subtropical Edible Garden: A long term anchor plant in a Brisbane or northern New South Wales food garden.
Courtyard Specimen: Slow growth and a tidy root system make it safe close to paving and structures.
Evergreen Screen: Planted in a row it forms a dense, glossy, fruit bearing barrier.
Large Container Culture: Its slow pace suits a substantial pot in a courtyard, provided it never dries out.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 3m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m
Best Planting Season: Spring and early summer, when soil is warm and growth is active
Soil & Drainage: Deep, rich, moisture retentive but free draining soil, distinctly acidic to neutral. It dislikes alkaline soils and salty bore water, both of which cause chlorosis
Establishment Care: Keep the root zone consistently moist through the first three years, since drying out sets a slow tree back badly and can abort a developing crop. Mulch heavily to 100mm kept clear of the stems, feed with a citrus or fruit tree fertiliser in spring and again in late summer, and protect young plants from frost and drying wind until the canopy is dense.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m in Australian gardens, taller over many decades
Width: 3 to 4m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade, with afternoon shade appreciated in hot inland areas
Native to: Southern Brazil
Flower Colour: White
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.







