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Alibertia edulis

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Wikipedia Abstract

Alibertia edulis (indigenous name Puruí) is a species in the genus Alibertia belonging to the Rubiaceae family. It is an evergreen dioecious tree up to 25 feet (7.5m) tall at maturity, with light brownish bark and opposite, ovate, dark green leaves that have a smooth margin. The flowers are tubular to trumpet-shaped, white, hairy, in 4-8" panicles, with 4-5 petals. The fruit is yellow, egg-shaped, ovate, edible, and made into jam or juices. The fruits are collected from trees in the wild, as this species is seldom cultivated. It is found in the coastal areas in northern Central America.
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Infraspecies

Alibertia edulis var. edulis
Alibertia edulis var. manuana
Alibertia edulis var. obtusiuscula
Alibertia edulis var. premontana

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.76
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Predators

Aellopos fadus (Fadus Sphinx)[3]
Chrysocyon brachyurus (Maned Wolf)[4]
Saguinus oedipus (cotton-top tamarin)[5]
Vireo caribaeus (St. Andrew Vireo)[6]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Proyecto Tití
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0