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Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum)

This is an attractive tropical shrub that produces pleasant tasting berries with an amaizing taste modifying property.

After you finish sucking on a berry, it will give all sour or bitter foods a sweet taste during the next 1-2 hours.

Eat a lemon afterward and it will be sweet as a ripe orange!

Because of this extraordinary property, it has been the object of many experiments as an artificial sweetener, to sweeten bitter medicines, etc.

It is already being used in specialty & diet restaurants in Europe and Japan to make unsweetened food taste sweet!

This small evergreen shrub is native to tropical Africa, and it usually grows to about 4-5 feet tall after about 5-8 years.

You can buy some Miracle Fruit seeds directly from the grower at CRSeeds.com

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Germination of Miracle Fruit seeds

Germination of Miracle Fruit seeds

A process for germinating the seeds

Green berries

Green berries

Miracle Fruit - Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit berries

Miracle Fruit berries

Close-up of freshly picked berries

Miracle Fruit berry

Miracle Fruit berry

Synsepalum dulcificum berry

Miracle Fruit flowers buds

Miracle Fruit flowers buds

Detail of Miracle fruit shrub flowering

Miracle fruit seeds

Miracle fruit seeds

Fresh seeds after de-pulping operation

Miracle fruit seeds germinating

Miracle fruit seeds germinating

Fresh and viable seed

Miracle Fruit shrub

Miracle Fruit shrub

Synsepalum dulcificum bush

Miracle fruit shrub

Miracle fruit shrub

Producing new folliage

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