The Sea Grape is quite easy to grow, has beautiful lush foliage and its grapes can be made into jellies

The Sea Grape Plant yields grapes, but it is certainly not a vine. This plant can grow to the surprising height of 30 to 50 feet tall, but ordinarily most are found to be in the 12 to 13 foot tall range.

Originally the sea grape plant was a native of the Carribean, but now can even be found in Argentina, and much of Central and Southern Florida even on the Gulf side!

It has been known to grow wild on some sandy beaches, but has been often used on the ocean side of Florida as a windbreak or to add a tropical setting by landscapers for large condominiums or hotels on beach side.

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For instance if found growing on the beach on a sand dune, it will remain basically a shrub, whose thick foliage will rarely show a distinct trunk to hold it up, as it must resist sand and salt spray that is almost constantly found on a beach.

However, if the same plant is grown away from the direct punishment of the ocean conditions, then that is when it acclimates and becomes a tree.

As a tree it takes on a vase-like shape with a very strong, sometimes gnarled trunk, thus it is highly prized with most photographers, as it is extremely eye pleasing. Its bark is most often found to be a reddish-brown color, which gains its gnarled appearance due to the bark’s shredded and peeling nature.

The tree is actually an evergreen, and its foliage is usually capable of making a lovely canopy. Its leaves are quite large, going from 8 to possibly 10 inches wide, thus are sometimes used as a fruit-serving platter on some island locations.

More often than not, the leaves are dark green with various veins of a reddish tint. Some plants are redder than others, though. The tree does make flowers, but they are relatively small, yellow/white and have a delightful sweet scent.

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The female tree is the one that produces the grapes. When they are still forming, or immature, they will be hanging in grape form from the branches, but are green in color.

When the fruit matures, it will turn more into a grape color becoming an attractive reddish-blue, which often turns into a black grape.

The grapes are edible raw right off the tree, but do not have a pleasant taste when fresh, however as tart as they are in the raw, they make absolutely fantastic jellies and jams as well, which are usually sold to tourists who visit the Caribbean.

It takes a lot of sea grapes to make a jelly or jam, though, as there is a hard nut-like pit in each grape. Oh, yes, and also the fruit can be used to make wine too!

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