In this video I talk about the sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera), a plant native to coastal Central and Southern Florida and other warm subtropical and tropical coastal areas of the Americas.
Coccoloba uvifera .Amazingly beautiful plant!! It really looks like a ficus of some kind, alltough it belongs to the Polygonaceae family,and ficuses belong to the Moraceae family ❤
I love these Seagrape plants. Cool huge leaves. The ones at Vero Beach FL are massive. You go thru a tunnel of coccoloba to get to the beach. I've started planting little ones in my yard. In the rain they are great to watch.
They look great on the dunes mixed with some palmettos. My kid brought some seed home from cocoa beach last year. Never tried to grow it though. Great vid 👌
Eric Thompson Thank you! I agree, they look really cool with the palms in the dunes. I went to a little forested area right along the beach and it was only palmetto, naturalized coconuts, and sea grapes. It was really cool looking.
How will do this do in highland county Florida on the sandy ridge not near the coast? I've heard people have seen in there. My lot is very sandy and sand is often moist.
NoSunBeach there is a possibility that they will grow well there. My only concern would be that after so many years a rare cold event might take it out. I would still plant one to try it out though.
I have heard of people growing sea grapes as far north as Jacksonville. They bounce back from cold quite well actually. More than people give them credit for.
I've been trying to grow these for a while. I got some green seeds and tried to germinate them but it didn't work. Could you share how you germinated the seeds and eventually grow it?
I brought some seeds back from my S Florida visit. I took the seeds from very ripe purple grapes. I washed all the pulp off, let them dry a few days then put them in a plastic seal bag wrapped in a wet paper towel. Put it in a warm dark place. Took about 3 weeks and 2 of them sprouted. Now in pots but growing really really slow. It is late fall here in New Mexico & can't really maintain 75 degrees. (Night gets colder) So will just have to see what happens.
It’s seeds travel via water, so technically it would be native to all of these areas, especially with Africa and the Americas sharing the same Atlantic Ocean.
