Pouteria franciscana
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit is edible.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in the Amazon in forest that is occasionally flooded.
Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, South America,
How to Identify
A tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk is 50 cm across. Young shoots have fine brown hairs. The leaves are in clusters and arranged in spirals. They are 12-19 cm long by 5-6 cm wide. They are narrowly oval and taper to the ends. The flowers are in groups or 3-8 and mostly below the leaves. The flowers are greenish-yellow and have a scent. The fruit are 5-6 cm long. There is one seed about 3 cm long.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Pouteria franciscana is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to Brazil.
Production
In Brazil plants flower from July to October and fruit in October.
Names & Synonyms
Abiorana branca
References (6)
- Daly, D. C., An Index of Common Names of Plants in Acre, Brazil. New York Botanical Garden Universidade Federal do Acre.
- Grandtner, M. M. & Chevrette, J., 2013, Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press p 525
- 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 689
- NYBG Herbarium "edible"
- Roa, J. A. G. & Boada, D. S. G., 2018, Fundación para el Fortalecimiento de la Fruticultura y Plantas Alimenticias no Convencionales en Colombia.
- Van Roosmalen, M.G.M., & Garcia, O. M., 2000, Fruits of the Amazonian Forest. Part 2: Sapotaceae. Acta Amazonica 30(2): 187-290
