Eugenia procera
(Sw.) Poir.
Ironwood
MyrtaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant.
Central America, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, North America, Puerto Rico, South America*, USA, Virgin Islands, West Indies*,
Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Suriname, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, Uruguay, St Vincent, Venezuela
How to Identify
A small tropical tree of the Myrtaceae family with edible fruit.
How to Grow
The plant is often found in dry alkaline soils in the wild. The flowers are fragrant.
Other Uses
The ash-coloured wood is hard and flexible. It is used for stakes and to make charcoal. The heartwood is a ight yellow-brown, the sap-wood somewhat darker. It is close-grained and compact, very heavy, exceedingly hard and very strong. This report is likely to have been misapplied to this species.
Names & Synonyms
Eugenia parkeriana DC.Myrtus brachystemon DC.Myrtus procera Sw.
References (4)
- Ekman Herbarium records Haiti
- Hedrick, U.P., 1919, (Ed.), Sturtevant's edible plants of the world. p 300
- 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 357
- Plants of Haiti Smithsonian Institute http://botany.si.edu/antilles/West Indies
