Faramea capillipes

Mull.Arg.

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit is eaten.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the lowlands. It grows from sea level to 1,000 m above sea level. It grows in rainforest.

Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, South America, Venezuela,

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

A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-5 m tall. The flowers are at the ends of branches. The flowers are white. The fruit is round or oval.

Names & Synonyms

Quinquincaca, Yacu sanango

Faramea breviflora Benth. ex Britton

References (1)

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 365