Campomanesia schlechtendaliana (O.Berg) Nied.

It can be a shrub or a tree. It is evergreen. It grows 7-15 m tall. The fruit stalks are 1-6 mm long and shorter than the flower bud. They are hairy. The leaves have 8-15 pairs of veins. The flowers occur singly. The fruit are 2-4 cm across. The pulp of the fruit is acid and edible.

Humid Atlantic rainforest near the coast and also inland in the hills. It becomes a tree in the forests, but is more shrub like when growing in more exposed areas near the coast.

The fruit are eaten fresh.

Plants are grown from seeds. The seeds are collected from ripe fruit and put into a plastic bag to partly decompose then washed in running water. The seeds need to be planted fresh and are best in light shade. Seedlings emerge in 40-50 days.