Outside of Florida, pitanga fruit may be harder to find in the U.S. Pitanga fruit or surinam cherry is native to Suriname and some other South American countries like Guyana, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Another pretty little tropical tree with edible fruit has fallen out of favor, though — the Surinam cherry. It’s a fascinating tree, but is it also an invasive species? Back when I moved into ...

Commissioner Nikki Fried's Office revealed it had confirmed the presence of Oriental fruit flies – which ... sapote, soursop, Surinam cherry, tangerine, tropical almond and guava." ...

Skip to content viewer section. Observations on the behavioral ecology of Caribbean fruit flies, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), were made during spring and summer 1981 on Surinam cherry (Eugenia uniflora ...