Blue Tongue (Melastoma Affine)The Blue Tongue ( Melastoma Affine) is a fast growing, evergreen, bushy shrub with attractive dark green, leathery foliage and contrasting red stems. It's large showy, mauve to purple flowers last only a few days but are produced over many months and in some areas throughout the year. Flowers followed by blue black fruit with a sweet, edible flesh which stains the mouth. With regular pruning from an early age is shape hardy to a wide range of soils

As it matures the fruit changes colour from black to red

The taste is milder than the European raspberry

Black pepper is the worlds most widely traded spice

sweet fruit

Cross pollination with other lychee can cause seeds in fruit

Gumbi Gumbi is resistant to both drought and frost

Aug-Nov but some years has good fruit in Dec

The Marang fruit has an amazing aroma

juicy and sweet with a mouthwatering aroma

The Valencia pride is a great mango to extend your season at home and has good disease resistance

The Haden mango variety originated in Florida and was introduced into Australia in the early 1970s

one female) to increase the chances of fruiting