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Cavendishia bracteata

Botanic Family

Ericaceae

Author

(Ruiz & Pavon ex J. Saint-Hilaire) Hoerold

Common Names

• Colmillos (Costa Rica)
• Arrayán (Spanish)
• Clavel Georgino (Spanish)
• Colmillo (Spanish)
• Flor de Montaña (Spanish)
• Flor del Niño (Spanish)
• San Miguel (Spanish)
• Sash (Spanish)
• Anizo
• Chaquilulo
• Esmeraldo
• Pichaque
• Sietecueros
• Tullá
• Uva Blanca
• Uva de Anis
• Uva de Camarona
• Uvita
• Uvito
• Uvito de Monte
• Uvito Macho
• Uvo
• Uvo de Monte
• Zarcillejo

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• cloud forest
• pasture.

Flowering Times

• All year (Nic)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nic)

Hemi-epiphytic glabrous shrub or liana with puberulent or glabrate branchlets. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 150mm x 60mm, or pilose beneath. Axillary or terminal downy clusters or terminal corymbs 30mm long with 5-20 tubular flowers, with rose pink basal bracts 25mm x 15m & bractlets, flowers to 25mm long from purple-red, light pink to orange tipped white sometimes purplish, coriaceous calyx tube to 4mm long & lobes 5mm long, rose-coloured corolla with white tip to 40mm long. Fruit a berry to 10mm diameter.

Edible fruit, fodder, environmental, fuel, material, medicinal, social

Further References

• Zuchowski
• Mobot
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley