Chrysobalanus icaco L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Chrysobalanaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Chrysobalanus icaco L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - An evergreen tree or shrub, attaining a maximum height of about 10 m., with a trunk sometimes 3 dm. in diameter, the thin bark brownish, the twiga glabrous or nearly so, reddish brown. Leaves elliptic to obovate or nearly orbicular, 4-8 cm. long, glabrous, rounded, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base, dark green and shining above, dull beneath, the petioles short, stout; cymes peduncled, several-many-flowered, shorter than the leaves; calyx pubescent, its lobes triangular-ovate, acute, about 2.5 mm. long; petals white, cuneate-spatulate, twice as long as the calyx-lobes; drupes various, globose or oval, pink, white or purple, '2-4 cm. long.

  • Distribution

    Coastal thickets and woodlands and especially on the borders of swamps. Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Rose Island, Great Guana, Great Exuma, Eleuthera, Cat Island. Watling's, Crooked Island. Inagua, Dellis' Cay (Caicos) and Ambergris Cay (Turk's Islands) : Florida; West Indies; Mexico to northern continental South America ; tropical Africa. Pork-fat Apple. Coco Plum. Catesby, 1 : pi. 25.

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