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Bellucia grossularioides (Bellucia grossularioides)

Description

It has glabrous leaves ovate-elliptic to oblong elliptic, coriaceous, with 5 main nerves, shortly acuminate. Large flowers with 6 to 8 white petals with pink tints and colorful membranous chalices remnants; the flowers are located not in the terminal twigs but in the woody ones and on the trunks with secondary growth. Berry fruit white-yellowish

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Myrtales

            • Family: Melastomataceae

              • Genus: Bellucia