Vasconcellea_candicans

<i>Vasconcellea candicans</i>

Vasconcellea candicans

Species of tree

Vasconcellea candicans is a small tree native to the western slopes of the Andes in southern Ecuador and Peru.[1]

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Description

Small dioecious shrub or tree to 8 m high.[1] Leaves ovate or almost rounded, with a slightly cordate base, margin entire or sometimes sinuately dentate and obtuse or acute apex; palmately veined; glabrous above, hairy below.[2] Male inflorescence a small cyme with many flowers; tiny 5- or 7-lobed calyx; 5- or 7- lobed corolla; stamens twice as many as the lobes of the corolla, with linear-oblong anthers.[2] Flowers greenish to purplish. Fruit ellipsoidal, yellow green at maturity, 10-18 x 4-6 cm; many seeds.[1]

Vernacular names

Chungay (in Ecuador).[1]

Mito, uliucana, jerju, odeque (in Peru).[1]

Uses

Edible fruit.[1]

Cultivation

Propagated by seeds.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "Vasconcella candicans". www.tropicallab.ugent.be. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  2. [2]
    Gray, Asa (1854). "United States Exploring Expedition". v.15:pt.1: 640–641. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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