Camu Camu Live Plants (Myrciaria Dubia)

The plant species Camu-Camu/Myrciaria Dubia belongs to the Myrtaceae family. It is a tiny, bushy tree that grows along rivers in the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon rainforests. It is also used medicinally.

The Camu-Camu fruit has a tiny, round, oval, or ovate shape and measures 2 to 3 centimetres in diameter on average. The fruit’s skin is smooth, taut, and semi-thin; it is green when young and changes to variegated red-green to dark red-purple colours when ripe. The meat of the fruit can be either sweet or acidic and is maroon or purple-black when fully ripe. The white, pale yellow to green underside is succulent, soft, and watery, and it contains one to four brown seeds. The leathery fruit’s reddish colour gives the fluids squeezed from Camu-Camu a pink tint. The scent is mild.

Fruits like camu camu offer fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, among other nutritional components. Numerous nutrients, including as vitamin C, beta-carotene, fatty acids, protein, and other substances that might have an impact on the body, are present in it. Infections caused by viruses, such as the common cold, eye diseases including cataracts, artery hardening, chronic fatigue syndrome, and many other conditions are treated with camu camu. Vitamin C-rich camu camu has remarkable antioxidant properties.

Common Name:  Cacari, Camocamo

Botanical Name:  Myrciaria Dubia

Bloom Time/Fruiting: 2-4 Years

Maintenance Required: Moderate