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Coccoloba ascendens

Botanic Family

Polygonaceae

Author

Duss ex Lindau

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Maranhão
• Pará
• Goiás - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Leeward Islands
• Panama
• N. Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Secondary growth
• forested riverbank
• seasonally inundated areas
• primary forest
• rain forest
• woodland.

Flowering Times

• Oct-Nov (Leeward Islands)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Glabrous liana to 15m or tree with coriaceous leaves to 170mm x 145mm, axillary or terminal racemes to 170mm long with bracts 2mm x 2mm, of cream or greenish-white flowers to 2mm x 2mm with 2mm lobes, green or purple-pink fruit 24mm x12mm maturing black or brown

Fruit edible but astringent, stems used in basket-making

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Engler
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• JAA
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO