Biology:Vasconcellea candicans
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Caricaceae |
| Genus: | Vasconcellea |
| Species: | V. candicans
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| Binomial name | |
| Vasconcellea candicans (A.Gray) A.DC.
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Vasconcella candicans". http://www.tropicallab.ugent.be/vasconcella_candicans.htm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gray, Asa (1854). United States Exploring Expedition. v.15:pt.1. pp. 640–641. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40382829.
Wikidata ☰ Q7916434 entry
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