Black Pearl

This is a Majidea Zangueberica - Black Pearl Tree - Mgambo Tree. The seeds were started 58 days ago and today I potted two plants. It is kind of nice when your tropical plant looks like a tropical plant.

 

I find this tropical plant to be easy to grow; in that it can tolerate sun or shade, moist or drought conditions, and just does its thing.

 

It looks nice and healthy, HG. What does it do...flowers, fruits, perfume???

 

It flowers and produces a large, hard, black berry. I purchased six seeds, started two and two weeks later had two plants. The plant in the photo is four months old.
Here is the information from the site:
Mgambo is a little gem of a tree native to East Africa. Only 15' tall in captivity, it has a perfect shape, a rounded canopy of shiny green leaves and fat custers of fragrant red flowers . The pods that follow split open to reveal expose velvet black seeds against a scarlet interior. They're so amazing they are often used as beads.
Black Pearl Tree is hardy in frost-free zones 9-11 and makes an extraordinary houseplant elsewhere. It grows as well in a container as in the tropics only smaller. And what a bonsai!

Mgambo is rare even in its native Zanzibar, but is drought-tolerant, easy to grow and compact enough to fit in most gardens. It grows readily from seed wrapped in a moist paper towel and kept warm.