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Pouteria campechiana
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Family:
SAPOTACEAE
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Citation: Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni, Candollea 9: 398. 1942; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 409. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 497. 2009.
Lucuma campechiana Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 3: 240. 1819.
Lucuma palmeri Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 33: 87. 1897.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Muttappazham
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Canistel, Chesa, Egg fruit, Yellow sapota
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Description:
Small trees, to 7 m tall; bark greyish-brown, blaze pink, latex milky, sticky; young branchlets finely adpressed tomentose becoming glabrous. Leaves simple, clustered at apex of branchlets, spirally arranged, estipulate; petiole 1-5 cm long, puberulus; lamina 8-32 x 2.5-6 cm, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, base cuneate to attenuate, apex acuminate, glabrous, margin entire; lateral nerves 9-22 pairs, pinnate, glabrous. Flowers in fascicles of 2 or 3, axillary and from below the leaves; pedicels 8-10 mm long, puberulus; sepals 5 or 6, broadly ovate, 4-7 mm long, obtuse or rounded at apex, silky outside; corolla 0.8-1.5 cm long, creamy white, lobes 5-6, oblong, rounded or truncate at apex, shorter than the tube; stamens 5-6, included, filaments shorter than the anthers. Fruit 5-7 cm across, orange yellow, depressed globose or conical; seeds 1-6, brown, broadly ellipsoid.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-June
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated in homesteads
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Distribution:
Native of Central and Tropical America
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Creamy, White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
Yes
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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