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Clerodendrum tessmannii

Moldenke

Lamiaceae Edible: Fruit

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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

Description

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

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Edible Uses

The fruit is edible.

Distribution

It is a tropical plant.

Where It Grows

Bolivia, South America,

Synonyms

Aegiphila triflora Moldenke

Also Known As

Guayaba, Guayagua

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

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