Pouteria durlandii (Standl.) Baehni

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Sapotaceae > Pouteria

Characteristics

A tree. It grows 25 m high. It can have buttresses 2 m high. The bark is grey brown or reddish-brown. The leaves are 7.5-20 cm long. There are 7-14 pairs of secondary veins. The flowers are greenish-white. The fruit is 2-2.5 cm long. The fruit become yellow or orange when ripe. There are 1-2 seeds. The seed is 1.6-2.3 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 17.5
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It occurs on wetter slopes. It grows in wet lowland rainforest. It can occur up to 850 m altitude.
More
Atlantic rainforest and coastal forests, usually in secondary formations.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The fruit are sweet and are eaten.
Uses wood
Edible fruits seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seeds. The seeds are collected from ripe fruit that have been stored in a pike for a few days to allow them to partly decompose then washed out in running water. Seeds need to be planted fresh and in light shade. Seedlings emerge in 100-120 days.
Mode seedlings
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Images

Leaf

Pouteria durlandii leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Pouteria durlandii leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Pouteria durlandii leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Fruit

Pouteria durlandii fruit picture by SINAC Pérez Greivin (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Pouteria durlandii world distribution map, present in Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Pouteria durlandii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:788920-1
WFO ID wfo-0000281714
COL ID 4M7GZ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 779704
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Synonyms

Lucuma durlandii Peteniodendron durlandii Pouteria durlandii Paralabatia durlandii

Lower taxons

Pouteria durlandii subsp. durlandii