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Ugni
Ugni is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, described as a genus in 1848. It is native to western Latin America from the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southern Chile (including the Juan Fernández Islands) and adjacent regions of southern Argentina, north to southern Mexico.
They are shrubs with evergreen foliage, reaching 1–5 m (3.3–16.4 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, oval, 1–4 cm (0.4–1.6 in) long and 0.2–2.5 cm (0.08–1 in) broad, entire, glossy dark green, with a spicy scent if crushed. The flowers are drooping, 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) diameter with four or five white or pale pink petals and numerous short stamens; the fruit is a small red or purple berry 1 cm diameter.
Ugni molinae (syn. Myrtus ugni, Eugenia ugni) is grown as an ornamental plant for its edible berries. Some commercial "strawberry flavouring" is made from this species, not from strawberries.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ugni by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
