Xylopia cuspidata

Diels

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit ?

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant.

Amazon, Asia, Bangladesh, Bolivia*, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bolivia, Brazil, Bhutan, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Georgia, French Guiana, Guyana, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Suriname, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A large tree. Young branches have rusty coloured hairs. The leaves are oblong and 15-25 cm long by 7-9 cm wide. They have a short sharp tip. They are hairy underneath. The flowers are in the axils of leaves that have fallen. Flowers occur singly. The inner petals are pale yellow.

Medicinal Uses

Based on interviews with traditional healers in Peru extracts from the bark and leaves have been recorded as being used to treat rheumatism.

Wikipedia

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Xylopia cuspidata is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Ludwig Diels, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the leaves which have an abruptly pointed tip (cuspidatus in Latin).