Description: Common name: Jamaica Cherry, Panama Cherry, Strawberry tree, Jam tree, Cotton Candy berry, Calabura, Kewni केव्नी (Marathi), ten pazham தேன் பழம் (Tamil) Botanical name:
Muntingia calabura Family:
Elaeocarpaceae (Jamaica cherry family) Origin: Tropical America, Pacific islands Small tree with tiered slightly drooping branches with crowded distichous simple alternate strongly asymmetrical sticky-pubescent oblong acuminate obliquely subcordate thin serrulate leaves, soon wilting, 2.5-15 cm long, 1-6.5 cm wide; stipules linear, about 5 mm long, caducous, flowers bisexual, 1 or few in axils, on pedicels about 2-3 cm long; sepals 5 (rarely 6 or 7), each about 1 cm long, lanceolate-caudate, tomentose-hirsute; petals white, [or pink], broadly spathulate-deltoid, about 12-13 mm long, rotate, stamens about 75; filaments slender, distinct, 6 mm long, white; anthers small yellow; disc annular, around the ovary; hirsute; ovary stipitate, glabrous, 5-celled; stigma capitate, 5-riged; fruit 5-celled baccate, sub-globose, light red, 1-1.5 cm wide, sweet-juicy, with many small (1/2 mm) elliptic grayish yellow seeds, stigma persistent. Courtesy: -
Flowers of India -
TopTropicals -
dict.die.net/muntingia calabura/ -
Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) - [davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/18098/ Dave's Garden] - [www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/panama.htm Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery] -
Plant Atlas - University of South Florida Note: Identification or description may not be accurate; it is subject to your review. Date: 1 April 2007, 11:52. Source:
Jamaica Cherry. Author:
Dinesh Valke from Thane, India. Camera location
19° 13′ 26.76″ N, 72° 57′ 30.02″ E View all coordinates using:
OpenStreetMap 19.224099; 72.958338.
