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Callicarpa acuminata

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

• Albocar
• Aurora
• Axin
• Blackberry
• Ceniciento
• Filigrana de Pifia
• Flor de Chichalaque
• Fructa de Chacha
• Patzahumacachil
• Pukil
• Sac Pukim
• Uva
• Uvilla
• Vara de Alcalde
• X Puc Yim
• Zacpukim

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Campeche
• Chiapas
• Nuevo León
• Oaxaca
• Quintana Roo
• San Luis Potosí
• Tamaulipas
• Veracruz
• Yucatán - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• forest
• thickets
• lowland jungle
• rain forest
• sand dunes
• savanna
• coastal
• secondary vegetation

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun (Belize) Apr
• May
• Dec (Colombia) May (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• Apr (Belize) Dec (Colombia) Jun (Costa Rica)

Scrambling to scandent woody shrub or tree to 4m with stellate-tomentose branches. Dentate glabrate leaves to 150mm long. Many-flowered cymes. Fragrant flowers, pale green calyx to 1.5mm long, white corolla to 3.5mm long. Glabrous drupe ripening purple to black to 4.5mm long.

Food, medical, social

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• Standley
• Mobot