Bellucia grossularioides

(Bellucia grossularioides)

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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:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Myrtales
Family:Melastomataceae
Genus:Bellucia
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