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Accession Data:

Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach. & Thonn.) Daniell

  • Common Name: Miracle Fruit
  • Family: Sapotaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: tropical west Africa
  • Habitat: hot, wet tropical lowlands

  • USDA Zone: 10b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201300006
  • Source: Logees
  • Accession Date: 01-25-2013
  • Bench: 1111 - AFR:Ground Bed 1 SE
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 01-21-2019

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: asterids
  • Order: Ericales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Sapotaceae
  • SubFamily: Chrysophylloideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2019
2018
2017

References (internal):

  • Medicinal Plants - Traditional African Medicine
  • Medicinal Plants
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Ghana / Ivory Coast / Nigeria / Central African Republic / Cameroon / Congo / Gabon / Zaire

References (external):

  1. How a small red fruit performs taste miracles @ NPR
  2. Human sweet taste receptor mediates acid-induced sweetness of miraculin @ PNAS
  3. California Rare Fuit Growers Fruit Facts Online
  4. The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 4 November 2013).
  5. Synsepalum dulcificum. (2011, June 18). Wikispecies, . Retrieved 13:00, November 4, 2013
  6. WCSP (2013). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families'. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  7. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, 2013-07-01. Accessed on 2013-11-04

data regenerated on Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:48:03 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Synsepalum dulcificum

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Current Accessions in the Sapotaceae

Subfamily Chrysophylloideae

  • Pouteria campechiana
  • Synsepalum dulcificum
  • Synsepalum dulcificum
  • Synsepalum msolo

Subfamily Sapotoideae
Tribe Sapoteae

  • Manilkara zapota
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
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= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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