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Sageretia elegans

Botanic Family

Rhamnaceae

Author

(Kunth) Brongniart

Common Names

• Cherry (Belize)
• Cambron (Honduras)
• Wild Plum
• Ciruelillo (Belize)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Mato Grosso do Sul - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Chiapas
• Sinaloa
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forest
• thickets
• coastal
• secondary forest
• gallery forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Jun
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Spiny liana, shrub or tree frequently scandent, usually puberulent. Serrulated leaves whitish-tomentose when young, becoming glabrescent to 115mm x 60mm. Axillary & terminal panicles of white or cream flowers to 3mm long, tomentulose calyx to 1.5mm long, greenish-white flowers. Drupe red ripening black 9mm diameter.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• NYBG
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke