Eugenia florida

Eugenia florida, the pitanga-preta or guamirim, is an evergreen shrub or small tree of the Myrtaceae widespread in tropical and subtropical America from southern Mexico through Brazil and into northern Argentina. It typically reaches 4-12 m in height, with a smooth, pale grey to brownish, flaking bark and a dense, rounded crown. The opposite leaves are simple, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 4-10 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, leathery, glossy dark green above and paler below, with entire margins and a finely acuminate tip; numerous translucent oil dots are visible when held to the light. Small white, four-petalled, sweetly scented flowers about 8-10 mm across are borne in fascicles of two to six in the leaf axils on slender pedicels, with conspicuous brush-like staminal tufts. The fruits are globose to obovoid, fleshy berries 8-12 mm across, ripening from green through red to glossy black, edible and pleasantly sweet-tart. The species inhabits semi-deciduous and gallery forest, cerrado, and forest edges.