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'''''Flacourtia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the in the [[willow]] family, [[Salicaceae]]. It was previously placed in the now defunct family [[Flacourtiaceae]].<ref name="GRIN"/> The generic name honors [[Étienne de Flacourt]] (1607–1660), a governor of [[Madagascar]]. It contains 15 species of [[shrub]]s and small [[tree]]s that are native to the [[Africa]]n and [[Asia]]n [[tropics]] and [[subtropics]]. Several species, especially ''[[Flacourtia indica|F. indica]]'', are cultivated as [[Ornamental plant|ornamentals]] and for their [[fruit]]s.<ref name="Everett">{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=h6xcnf5TksYC |title=The New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture |volume=4 |first=Thomas H. |last=Everett |publisher=Courier Corporation |year=1981 |isbn=9780824072346 |pages=2376–2377}}</ref> {{Inc| Flacourtia (Etienne de Flacourt, 1607-1660, General Director of the French East India Company. Governor of Madagascar and author of a history of Madagascar). Flacourtiaceae. One of the species, a shrub with edible fruits, is cultivated in the tropics and has been introduced in southern California and perhaps elsewhere. Shrubs and small trees, often spine-bearing: lvs. short-stalked, toothed or crenate, simple, alternate: fls. small, dioecious, in small racemes or glomes or panicles (the fertile ones sometimes solitary); sepals 4-5, scale-like, ciliated, overlapping; petals none; stamens many; styles 2 to many; ovary 2-5-celled: fr. a berry, often edible, usually with 1 seed in each cell. —Fifteen to 20 species in Trop. Afr., Asia, and islands. {{SCH}} }} ==Cultivation== {{edit-cult}} ===Propagation=== {{edit-prop}} ===Pests and diseases=== {{edit-pests}} ==Species== Selected species: * ''[[Flacourtia indica]]'' (Burm.f.) Merr. - Batoko Plum (southern [[Asia]], [[Madagascar]])<ref name="Everett"/> * ''[[Flacourtia inermis]]'' Roxb. * ''[[Flacourtia jangomas]]'' [[João de Loureiro|(Lour.)]] [[Ernst Adolf Raeuschel |Raeusch.]] - Indian Plum ([[Tropical Asia]]) * ''[[Flacourtia montana]]'' J.Graham *''[[Flacourtia rukam]]'' Zoll. & Moritzi - Rukam ([[Malaysia]])<ref name="Everett"/><ref name="GRINSpecies">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4695 |title=Species Records of ''Flacourtia'' |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2006-03-30 |accessdate=2010-02-07}}</ref> ==Gallery== {{photo-sources}} <gallery> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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