Dwarf Tamarillo

Cyphomandra abutiloides

These small ground cherry-sized fruits have a tropical pineapple-peach flavor with a lovely balance of sweetness and acidity. Plants typically grow smaller like an annual tomato plant but in tropical regions can become quite a large shrub or tree. Fruits grow upward much like a chile de arbol, rather than dangling down like a cherry tomato or tamarillo does. Similar to the Guava Tamarillo which is slightly larger has more of a guava-kiwi-passion fruit flavor profile.

Photo from Baker Creek

RELATED RESOURCES

• Dan Permaculture Food Forest

  • DWARF TAMARILLO Tree Tomato (Solanum abutiloides) Update Taste Test

  • Growing Dwarf Tamarillo Dwarf Velvet Peach Cyphomandra abutiloides In The Food Forest

• Dwarf Tamarillo seeds from Planting Justice

Guava Tamarillo

Cyphomandra fragrans

Similar to the dwarf tamarillo, the guava tamarillo is slightly larger (between a dwarf and regular tamarillo) and shares a similar tart tropical flavor said to be like a guava or kiwi.

• Guava Tamarillo - Tasting & Growing from Seed (from The Kiwi Grower in New Zealand)