Spondias purpurea
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Description
Tree up to 10(-25) m high and 30(-80) cm ø.
Bark greyish or brown, smooth.
Leaves 4-12 pairs;
Inflorescences appearing before the leaves, paniculate or racemiform, axillary, up to 4 cm long, slightly puberulous;
Flowers reddish or purplish.
Petals ovate-oblong, 3-4 by 1½-2 mm.
Stamens 3 mm;
Ovary subglobose, c. ¾ mm ø, 5-(or 4-)celled;
Distribution
Pantropical cultivated, tropical America
Native of tropical America. Now pantropical in cultivation.
Uses
Cultivated for the fruit which tastes sweet, if mawkish. The fruit is pleasantly fragrant, like plums in turpentine! (CORNER). HEYNE l.c. noted that the solid bark is in Java used for making stamps, but the fruit is not esteemed; the latter is called hog-plum, E, varkenspruim, D.
Citation
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 115
?F.-VILL. 1906 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Suppl. 84
Merr. 1905 – In: Publ. Gov. Lab. Philip.: 36
BLANCO 1878: p. 143. – In: Fl. Filip., ed. 3: t. 132
Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 243
HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl.: 975
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 2067
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 115
LINNÉ 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 233
F.-VILL. 1880: Nov. App.: 55
BLANCO 1845: Fl. Filip., ed. 2: 273
BROWN 1950: p. 350. – In: Useful Pl. Philip.: f. 172 & 173
LINNÉ 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 471
FL 1912: Manila: 301
AIRY SHAW & FORMAN 1967: p. 12. – In: Kew Bull.: f. 2: 7 & 8
Merr. 1904 – In: Publ. Gov. Lab. Philip.: 22
Merr. 1904 – In: Publ. Gov. Lab. Philip.: 22
VIDAL 1883: Sinopsis Atlas: 22: t. 27, f. B