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Chrysophyllum
Family:
Sapotaceae
jade fortnash
FNA
Resources
Richard P. Wunderlin, R. David Whetstone in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Trees. Stems
unarmed, densely hairy to glabrate.
Leaves
persistent, alternate; stipules absent; petiole present; blade: base cuneate to rounded, apex acute to acuminate [rounded or emarginate], surfaces densely hairy [glabrous] abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially.
Inflorescences
fascicles or solitary flowers.
Flowers:
sepals 4-5[-6] in 1 whorl, imbricate, abaxially densely hairy; petals (4-)5(-6)[-8], greenish white or greenish yellow, sericeous adaxially, lobes undivided, equaling or shorter than [exceeding] corolla tube; stamens 4-5[-8], distinct; staminodes absent [present]; pistil 3-5(-6)[-12]-carpellate; ovary 3-6[-12]-locular, densely hairy; placentation axile.
Berries
purple to black [yellow, orange, red, brown, green], ellipsoid to ovoid, glabrous [hairy].
Seeds
1[-5], brown, laterally compressed; hilum narrowly ovate to obovate; embryo vertical; endosperm present.
x
= [12, 13, 14,] 26.
Species within inventory project:
UF CONSERVATION AREAS
Chrysophyllum cainito
Map not
Available
Chrysophyllum oliviforme
Map not
Available
This project made possible through support from the UF Planning, Design & Construction and the UF Office of Sustainability
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