Eugenia axillaris (Sw.) Willd.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Myrtaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Eugenia axillaris (Sw.) Willd.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub or tree, reaching a height of 8 m., with a maximum trunk diameter of about 3 dm., the bark shallowly fissured, the branchlets terete. Leaves elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate or nearly elliptic, unpleasantly odorous, 3-5 cm. long, revolute-margined, paler beneath than above and black-dotted, the petioles 2-5 mm. long, margined; racemes short, cluster-like, axillary; pedicels short, pubescent; calyx-lobes 4, rounded; corolla 3-4 mm. broad; petals 4, surpassing the calyx-lobes, glandular-punctate; fruit depressed-globose, 10-12 mm. in diameter, black, smooth, glandular-punctate, sweet.

  • Discussion

    Coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Great Bahama to Caicos, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles: Bermuda; Florida; Cuba to Porto Rico and Guadeloupe ; Jamaica. Referred by Dolley, by Mrs. Northrop, and by Hitchcock to E. monticola Griseb. White Stopper. Wattle.

  • Distribution

    Great Bahama to Caicos, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles: Bermuda; Florida; Cuba to Puerto Rico and Guadeloupe ; Jamaica.

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