Belize Needle-Flower Tree
$79.00 Original price was: $79.00.$23.70Current price is: $23.70.
1000 in stock
SKU: VRSgwuc3bx
Category: Flowering Trees
LIGHT: Filtered sun, Full sun, Partial sun
WATER: Water regularly to maintain evenly moist soil – weekly, or more often.
SIZE: Fast growing; grows 10 to 20 ft. tall, 10 to 12 ft. wide.
| Description | A rare, beautiful, small tropical tree with highly fragrant, exotic flowers that create a fireworks-like display at branch tips. Especially fragrant at night – often called wild jasmine or perfume tree. Produces sweet, fleshy yellow-green fruit with a large coffee bean-like appearance. A stunning accent for smaller gardens. A frost-tender evergreen. |
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| Bloom Time | Spring to Summer |
| Deciduous/Evergreen | Evergreen |
| Special Features | Edible, Fast Growing |
| Growth Rate | Fast |
| Flower Attributes | Fragrant, Showy Flowers |
| Landscape Use | Container, Privacy Screen |
| Flower Color | White |
| Foliage Color | Green |
| Companion Plants | Lilyturf (Liriope); Lily of the Nile (Agapanthus); Daylily (Hemerocallis); Coral Bells (Heuchera); Hosta (Hosta) |
| Care Instructions | Easily grown in enriched, moist, well-drained soils. Grows quickly in mild climates and thrives in high humidity. Water deeply, regularly during the first growing season to establish the root system; once established, water as needed to maintain evenly moist soil. Apply a balanced fertilizer in spring, summer and fall. |
| History | The native range of Posoqueria reaches from Mexico through Central America and to the northern portion of South America. |
| Lore | The sweet, fleshy fruit of Posoqueria is considered edible by some, and is often consumed by humans in its native rainforest regions. The rounded, two-inch fruits are more often a source of nutrition to wildlife, being an important staple of lion tamarins and spider monkeys in their native habitats, hence they are commonly referred to as “monkey apples”. |