CRISP Cajun Creole Cherry (Eugenia Uniflora))

Description

The CRISP Cajun Creole Cherry is yet another plant that we have acclimated to the city of New Orleans. All of this variety are grown from seed harvested at CRISP Farms. Hardy to 22 degrees. The regular red variety with a sweet and sour patch kid flavor. Can take excessive pruning and makes a good hedge plant. I have gotten fruit from a plant in a microclimate in part shade with a wet ground from the roof on a South facing wall.

We have also gotten fruit in the middle of the lot on Needle Street. That plant was not watered her first four years in the ground. The ones harvested in 2024 have a taste remiscent of a cross between the peach and the flavor described above.

All plants in this category come directly from both of those mother plants. Not only are we taking into account what it means to have nostalgia for a place these fruit have never been, we are calling out to the ancestors that came long before. This is the beauty of growing from seed.

And it is our hope that we will get from second generation to third generation and on and on until eugenia is a household name all around these parts.