Guatteria blepharophylla
Mart.
AnnonaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten for their sweet pulp.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in dry forest.
Bolivia*, Brazil, South America,
How to Identify
A spindly shrub. It grows 3-6 m tall. The branches are long and arching. The leaves are large and alternate. They are drooping. They are a dull dark green above and more pale underneath. The flowers are thick and fleshy and orange to yellow. The fruit are purple, juicy and edible.
Other Information
The fruit pulp is sweet.
Names & Synonyms
Moinatihi
Annona sessilifora Benth.Guatteria oxycarpa Poepp. ex Mart.Guatteriopsis blepharophylla (Mart.) R. E. Fr.and others
References (3)
- NYBG herbarium "edible"
- Reis, S. V. and Lipp, F. L., 1982, New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden herbarium. Harvard. p 71 (As Guatteriopsis blepharophylla)
- www.proyanomami.org (As Guatteriopsis blepharophylla)
