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Psidium cattleianum
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Psidium cattleianum Afzel. ex Sabine, Trans. Hort. Soc. London 4: 317. 1821.
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Description:
Shrubs or trees, to 7 m tall; bark grayish brown, smooth; branchlets terete. Leaves opposite, 5-10 × 2-4 cm, elliptic to obovate, thickly leathery, both surfaces glabrous, secondary veins obscure, base cuneate, apex acute. Flowers axillary, solitary. Hypanthium obconiform. Calyx lobes 4 or 5, long ovate. Petals white, obovate, ca. 1 cm. Stamens shorter than petals. Ovary adnate to hypanthium, 4-loculed. Style slender; stigma peltate. Berry violet when mature, pyriform to globose, 2.5-4 cm; flesh white, yellow, or reddish.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-May
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Native of South America, widely introduced elsewhere
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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):
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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