Wednesday Word: Jabuticaba

[calzephyr]

Jabuticaba - noun.

The glossy, round, thick-skinned jabuticaba is the fruit of the jabuticabeira (Plinia cauliflora), aka the Brazilian grapetree. The fruit grows directly on the trunk as opposed to branches.

By Adamantiaf - Own work (Original text: I created this work entirely by myself.), Public Domain, Link

Comments

[sallymn]

Ooooh, lovely word and I like that picture!

[calzephyr]

They almost seem sci-fi in nature. I wonder what happened that the fruit grows on the tree.