Melicoccus bijugatus Jacq.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Cultivated Plants of Hawaii
Sapindaceae
Melicaccus bijugatus Jacq.
Hawaii, Kauai County, Kauai Island. National Tropical
Botanical Garden, McBryde Garden, Bamboo Bridge,
Map S.
21°54.153'N, 159°30.434’W
Elevation 52m
NTBG# 800181 001
Tree ca. 20m tall. Fruits green, flesh inside matures to
orange, edible. Wild collected in Nigril Hill, Jamaica by
Lynwood Hume (s.n.). Silica sample deposited in tint
BBG Lab tissue collection and at the NTBG herbarium.
“Spanish lime, honey berry”
29 July 2008
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