There are about 7 species of evergreen trees, in this genus. \u00a0They derives from the rainforest of northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea and the Malay Archipelago. \u00a0The glossy lance shape, smooth edge leaves are arranged opposite. \u00a0On the tips of the twigs small petal, sprays of white flowers appear followed by globular, tang pink, white, purple berries. \u00a0The berries are used to make jams. Acmenas makes a good street tree or in the garden.<\/p>\n
When cultivated outdoors they like frost-free climates with fertile, moist soil in full sun or shade they prefer humid shelter situations at least when young.<\/p>\n
When cultivated indoors use soil based potting mix in full light or filtered light, top dress in spring or autumn. \u00a0During growing season water freely and use a balance liquid fertilizer monthly. \u00a0Water sparingly in winter.<\/p>\n
Prone to whiteflies scale insects, aphids<\/i><\/em>, and sooty mold <\/i><\/em>may be problems.<\/p>\n Acmena ingens \u2013 Acmena australis \u2013 Eugina brachyandra \u2013 Red Apple<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Native to the rich lowland of the rainforest of Australia to northeastern New South Wales to Queens land. Grows 50\u2019 feet tall in cultivation. Has an erect habit when young but later limbs begin to spread. \u00a0Bears narrow pointed leaves up to 8\u201d long. \u00a0It blooms in early summer then 6 months later bears 1 \u00bd\u201d diameter showy purplish red or crimson fruit.<\/p>\n Zones 9-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acmena There are about 7 species of evergreen trees, in this genus. \u00a0They derives from the rainforest of northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea and the Malay Archipelago. \u00a0The glossy lance shape, smooth edge leaves are arranged opposite. \u00a0On the tips of the twigs small petal, sprays of white flowers appear followed by globular, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,20,29],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160252365"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}