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Starfruit

Damasonium bourgaei

Also called Water-star, Mediterranean Starfruit Plantain

Starfruit
Photo: Paulo Martins, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Alismataceae (Alismat family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Native range
Medit. to E. India
Climate
temperate

About

Damasonium bourgaei is a species of plant in the family Alismataceae.

Where it grows

Damasonium bourgaei has a scattered distribution in the Mediterranean Basin, occurring in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Syria, Sicily and Sardinia, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, and India.

Other Damasonium plants

Starfruit · California damsonium · Damasonium minus · Starfruit

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Damasonium bourgaei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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