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Date: 06/07/2006 Views: 627

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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Miracle Fruit shrub

Miracle Fruit shrub

Synsepalum dulcificum - Miracle Fruit

Miracle Fruit shrub

Miracle Fruit shrub

This one is about 10-15 years old

Natural Seedling

Natural Seedling

Seedling by its mother

Seed germinating

Seed germinating

Synsepalum dulcificum

Seedling  exposed

Seedling exposed

Miracle Fruit - Synsepalum dulcificum

Seedling by its mother

Seedling by its mother

Synsepalum dulcificum berries

Synsepalum dulcificum berries

The Miracle Fruit and the man

The Miracle Fruit and the man

Miracle fruit - Synsepalum dulcificum

Top of Miracle Fruit shrub

Top of Miracle Fruit shrub

Full of berries

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