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Chrysophyllum perpulchrum
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Chrysophyllum perpulchrum

Chrysophyllum perpulchrum

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

Whilst older trees succeed in a sunny position, seedlings need shade for their proper development[1]. Trees in a 12-year-old experimental plot in Ghana were 3 - 6 metres tall[1]. Trees can produce fruits in abundance when the bole is 60cm or more in diameter, but individual trees with bole diameters of just 20cm may already start fruiting[1]. Regeneration is not abundant in dry forest which is regularly burned, and seedlings are more common in less disturbed forest[1].

Propagation

Seed - best sown as soon as it is ripe, when it can germinate in 12 - 30 days[1]. Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Chrysophyllum+perpulchrum>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.