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Eugenia uniflora - Flower side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower side view; Botanical Garden Berlin, Germany; 3/2009 © Jörn Germer

Eugenia uniflora - Ripe fruits - Click to enlarge!

Ripe fruits; Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil; 10/2008 © Sonja Germer

Eugenia uniflora - Flower close-up - Click to enlarge!

Flower close-up; Botanical Garden Munich, Germany; 3/2004 © Jörn Germer

Eugenia uniflora - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil; 10/2008 © Sonja Germer

Eugenia uniflora - Ripening fruit - Click to enlarge!

Ripening fruit; Botanical Garden Munich, Germany; 3/2004 © Jörn Germer

Eugenia uniflora - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil; 10/2008 © Sonja Germer

Eugenia uniflora - Foliage - Click to enlarge!

Foliage; Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil; 10/2008 © Sonja Germer

Eugenia uniflora - Bark - Click to enlarge!

Bark; Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil; 10/2008 © Sonja Germer

Eugenia uniflora - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil; 10/2008 © Sonja Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 56
Date of entry: 10.06.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Surinam Cherry

German: Surinam Kirsche

Mandarin: 红果仔 (hong guo zi)

Portuguese: Pitanga

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Myrtales (76)

        Family: Myrtaceae (20)(family description)

          Genus: Eugenia (2)

            Epithet: uniflora L. (2)

Synonym: Eugenia arechavaletae Herter

uniflora => one-flowered

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: white

External links

Check for Eugenia uniflora at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [23] Lorenzi,H. (2002): Brazilian trees: A guide to the identification and cultivation of Brazilian native trees. Plantarum, Nova Odessa, São Paulo, Brazil.

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