Eugenia coronata
Schum. & Thonn.
Elephant's sweet berry
MyrtaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in savannah and on the edge of forest.
Africa, Cuba, Ghana, Guinea, Guinée, Togo, USA, West Africa, West Indies,
Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Angola, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Bahamas, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Grenada, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Comoros, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Trinidad & Tobago, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, St Vincent, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A shrub or small tree. It grows 7 m high.
How to Grow
It can be clipped and used as a hedge
References (3)
- Burkill, I H., 1985, Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Vol. 4.
- JSTOR,
- Miguel, E., et al, 1989, A checklist of the cultivated plants of Cuba. Kulturpflanze 37. 1989, 211-357
