Vasconcellea candicans

Vasconcellea candicans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Caricaceae
Genus: Vasconcellea
Species: V. candicans
Binomial name
Vasconcellea candicans
(A. Gray) A.DC

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

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 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Vasconcella candicans". www.tropicallab.ugent.be. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  2. 1 2 Gray, Asa (1854). "United States Exploring Expedition". v.15:pt.1: 640–641.
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