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Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Acioa edulis

Acioa edulis

Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Acioa edulis is a tree growing up to 25 metres tall. The bole has small buttresses up to 50cm high[ 735 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 19: 1-268 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56833 2 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ]. The tree is commonly harvested from the wild, especially for its edible seed and the oil obtained from it. It is also cultivated outside its natural range, especially along the Rio Solimıes in Amazonas, Brazil[ 734 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 1. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 9: 1-319 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56832 4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical
Native RangeS. America - northern Brazil.
HabitatForests on non-flooded ground in the Amazon[ 735 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 19: 1-268 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56833 2 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ].