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Internal ID UUID643fe8c6928c8068477930
Scientific name Pouteria amygdalina
Authority (Standl.) Baehni
First published in Candollea 9: 360 (1942)

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It is a medium-sized tree, growing up to 15 meters tall. The leaves are elliptic-oblong, with a pointed tip and a rounded base. The flowers are small and white, and the fruits are round and yellow. The fruits are edible and have a sweet flavor.

Pouteria amygdalina is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae found in Belize and Guatemala. It is a medium-sized tree, growing up to 15 meters tall, with elliptic-oblong leaves with a pointed tip and a rounded base. The flowers are small and white, and the fruits are round and yellow, with a sweet flavor that is edible.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Lucuma amygdalina Standl. Trop. Woods 4: 5 (1925)
Pouteria binatosepala Lundell Wrightia 5: 94 (1975)
Pouteria psilocarpa Baehni Candollea 9: 249 (1942)
Sideroxylon amygdalinum Standl. Trop. Woods 31: 45 (1932)
Bumelia laurifolia Standl. Trop. Woods 18: 31 (1929)

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000281528
Tropicos 28700689
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:209686-2
The Plant List kew-163909
Open Tree Of Life 3901019
NCBI Taxonomy 2945438
IUCN Red List 37722
IPNI 209686-2
iNaturalist 281554
GBIF 2884926
Freebase /m/02xcc5l
EOL 1152239
USDA GRIN 419939
Wikipedia Pouteria_amygdalina

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Linking Anthropogenic Landscape Perturbation to Herbivory and Pathogen Leaf Damage in Tropical Tree Communities Pablo-Rodríguez JL, Bravo-Monzón ÁE, Montiel-González C, Benítez-Malvido J, Álvarez-Betancourt S, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Oyama K, Arena-Ortiz ML, Alvarez-Añorve MY, Avila-Cabadilla LD Plants (Basel) 13-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10675074
doi:10.3390/plants12223839
PMID:38005736

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