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Sorocea guilleminiana

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(c) Marcio Santos Ferreira, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

iNaturalist· cc-by-nc

(c) Marcio Santos Ferreira, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

Sorocea guilleminiana is a species of plant in the family Moraceae. It is native to South America.

Description

A tropical tree in the Moraceae family that is cultivated for its fruit.

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Edible Uses

The fruit is edible.

Distribution

It is a tropical plant.

Where It Grows

Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America,

Other Information

It is a cultivated plant.

Synonyms

Balanostreblus ilicifolius KurzSorocea castaneifolia HuberSorocea grandifolia S. MooreSorocea houlletiana Gaudich.Sorocea jureiana RomaniucSorocea klotzschiana Baill.Sorocea macrogyne Lanj. & Wess. BoerTrophis hilariana Casar.

Also Known As

Jaca-brava-pequena, Pidjo kra nhire, Pi'o o nhire

References (5)

  • 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 831
  • Kew Plants of the World Online
  • Poset, D. A., 2002, Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture. Routledge
  • Roa, J. A. G. & Boada, D. S. G., 2018, Fundación para el Fortalecimiento de la Fruticultura y Plantas Alimenticias no Convencionales en Colombia.
  • 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

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