• Source: Coccoloba

Coccoloba is a genus of about 120–150 species of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae, which is native to the Neotropics. There is no overall English name for the genus, although many of the individual species have widely used common names.




Range


The genus is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, in South America, the Caribbean and Central America, with two species extending into Florida.




Description



The species are shrubs and trees, and lianas, mostly evergreen. The leaves are alternate, often large (to very large in some species; up to 2.5m (8 feet) long in C. gigantifolia), with the leaves on juvenile plants often larger and of different shape to those of mature plants. The flowers are produced in spikes. The fruit is a three-angled achene, surrounded by an often brightly coloured fleshy perianth, edible in some species, though often astringent. Species in the genus have been characterized as dioecious, but this is unclear. Trioecy has been documented in C. cereifera.




Selected species


Coccoloba acuminata
Coccoloba barbadensis – Uvero
Coccoloba caracasana – Papaturro
Coccoloba cereifera
Coccoloba costata – Uvilla
Coccoloba diversifolia – Pigeonplum
Coccoloba gigantifolia (with human-sized leaves)
Coccoloba goldmanii
Coccoloba krugii – Whitewood seagrape
Coccoloba microstachya – Puckhout
Coccoloba mollis
Coccoloba padiformis
Coccoloba pallida – Pale seagrape
Coccoloba pauciflora – Uvilla cimarrona
Coccoloba pubescens – Grandleaf seagrape
Coccoloba pyrifolia – Uvera
Coccoloba rugosa – Ortegon
Coccoloba sintenisii – Uvero de monte
Coccoloba swartzii – Swartz's pigeonplum
Coccoloba tenuifolia – Bahama pigeonplum
Coccoloba tuerckheimii
Coccoloba uvifera – Seagrape
Coccoloba venosa – False chiggergrape
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Ecology


The species Coccoloba cereifera is notable for being restricted to an area of only some 26 square km on a single low peak near Serra do Cipó National Park, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.




Cultivation and uses


One species, Coccoloba uvifera (Seagrape) is commonly cultivated for its edible fruit, and the genus name is sometimes used to denote this species.




References






External links


Media related to Coccoloba at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Coccoloba at Wikispecies

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Anggur
• Polygonaceae
• Buah buni
• Pulau Navassa
• Coccoloba
• Coccoloba uvifera
• Coccoloba diversifolia
• Coccoloba gigantifolia
• Coccoloba tuerckheimii
• Coccoloba cereifera
• Polygonaceae
• List of trees of the Caribbean
• Coccoloba pubescens
• Coccoloba caracasana