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In Singapore: Peanut Butter Fruit, Marmela, Marmelo, Ameixa do Peru, Bunchoise des Andes, 文雀西亚木 (Cultivated in Singapore)
Bunchosia armeniaca is a tree in the Malpighi family native to northwestern South America, growing to about 5 m in cultivation (up to 20 m in the wild). It is grown for its sweet, red, cloying fruit, which is often picked green and ripened indoors.
Bunchosia armeniaca is a species in the family Malpighiaceae native to northwestern South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Peru). Common names include cansaboca, cirhuela de frayle, ciruela de fraile (friar's plum), guáimaro, indano, and mamey de tierra fría (cold-earth mamey). Its Kichwa name is usuma.
Bunchosia armeniaca can attain a height of 20 meters, but it commonly grows to 5 meters. It can be found between 100–2600 m of elevation in a wide range of ecological habitats.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bunchosia armeniaca by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
