jaboticaba, jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora

small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches

• fruit tree — tree bearing edible fruit

• jaboticaba — tough-skinned purple grape-like tropical fruit grown in Brazil

• Myrciaria, genus Myrciaria, Myrcia — a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family