Sacoglottis amazonica

Mart.

iNaturalist · cc-by-nc
(c) James K. Wetterer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit is eaten.

It is a tropical plant.

Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, South America, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela,

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

A tropical tree in the Humiriaceae family found in tropical regions.

Names & Synonyms

Achua, Uchirana

References (4)

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 773
Kew Plants of the World On line
Reis, S. V. and Lipp, F. L., 1982, New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden herbarium. Harvard. p 143
Roa, J. A. G. & Boada, D. S. G., 2018, Fundación para el Fortalecimiento de la Fruticultura y Plantas Alimenticias no Convencionales en Colombia.