Clerodendrum tessmannii

Moldenke

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Botanical Research Institute of Texas

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The New York Botanical Garden

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit is edible.

It is a tropical plant.

Bolivia, South America,

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

A tropical herb or shrub in the Lamiaceae family with edible fruit.

Names & Synonyms

Guayaba, Guayagua

Aegiphila triflora Moldenke

References (1)

Zambrana, P, et al, 2017, Traditional knowledge hiding in plain sight – twenty-first century ethnobotany of the Chácobo in Beni, Bolivia. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2017) 13:57