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Guettarda aromatica

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Poeppig & Endlicher

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forests
• riversides
• seasonally inundated areas
• forest lakeside. Edible fruits with sweet flesh

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• May
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep

Liana, shrub or tree to 4m with curved thorns. Leaves to 180mm long, glabrate above & silky beneath. Cymes of flowers,fragrant pink & white or yellowish flowers, silky white corolla with tube to 23mm long & 5 lobes to 4mm long, purple fruits,

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Kew