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Morinda royoc

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Xoyen Ak' (Mexico)
• Safran (Haiti)
• Red Gal

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bahamas
• Bermuda
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Curacao
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Venezuela
• Florida - U.S.A.

Natural Habitats

• Savanna
• coastal
• riverside
• secondary vegetation
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr-Nov Feb Jan-Aug

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Nov

Scandent or procumbent glabrous shrub or tree to 7m with puberulent branchlets. Glabrous leaves or nearly so to 130mm x 45mm with barbate hairs in leaf axils. Solitary axillary & nearly terminal 10mm long white flowers, 5-lobed puberulent calyx to 3mm long, white or crimson corolla to 8mm long with tube 5mm x 2mm puberulent outside & lobes to 2mm long. Fleshy 25mm diameter yellow berry

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Rub Col
• JAA
• Flora Costaricensis
• FOSEUS
• Kew
• Schlechtendahlia