Marcgravia brownei

(Triana & Planch.) Krug & Urb.

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit are eaten, particularly by children.

A tropical plant.

Amazon, Colombia, Ecuador, South America,

Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

A tropical climbing plant in the family Marcgraviaceae that attaches to other plants, found in tropical America with edible fruit.

The fruit are eaten by children.

There are 50 Marcgravia species. They are in tropical America.

Names & Synonyms

Namontague, Namontake

References (5)

Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A., and Seberg, O. 2007, Flowering Plant Families of the World. Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. p 202 (As Marcgravia spp.)
Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 524 (As Marcgravia spp.)
Roa, J. A. G. & Boada, D. S. G., 2018, Fundación para el Fortalecimiento de la Fruticultura y Plantas Alimenticias no Convencionales en Colombia.
Smith, N., Mori, S.A., et al, 2004, Flowering Plants of the Neotropics. Princeton. p 238 (As Marcgravia spp.)
Torre, de la, L., et al, 2008, Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador. Herbario QCA. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p 420