Bunchosia argentea

Peanut butter fruit is named for the texture of its pulp: dense, sticky and sweet, like freshly spread peanut butter. Its red-orange fruits, the size of a large grape, recall a dried fig or a roasted sweet potato. It's a shrub or small tree that flowers and fruits for most of the year, with showy clusters of yellow flowers. Easy, generous and perfect for the backyard.

Native to Colombia and Venezuela, where it grows in dry and moist forests near the coast and in rocky, open lowlands. It prefers full sun and well-drained soil, and once established it's very drought tolerant. It grows at a medium rate into a shrub or small tree of 2–10 meters, usually about 6. It adapts both to areas with a marked dry season and to humid ones.

The fruits, about 2 cm across, are eaten raw when fully ripe, soft and a deep red-orange. The pulp is dense and very sweet, its sugars concentrated; enjoy it straight from the tree or blended into smoothies.

No documented medicinal uses are known.

A support species of the medium stratum with a secondary life cycle: it bears fruit within a few years while the system matures. Since it flowers and fruits for most of the year, it offers a continuous harvest and steady food for pollinators and birds.