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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Taxobox<br /> | color = lightgreen<br /> | name = Jocote<br /> | image = Jocote.jpg<br /> | regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br /> | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br /> | classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]<br /> | ordo = [[Sapindales]]<br /> | familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]<br /> | genus = ''[[Spondias]]''<br /> | species = '''''S. purpurea<br /> | binomial = ''Spondias purpurea''<br /> | binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|(L.)]]<br /> }}<br /> '''Jocote''' (''Spondias purpurea'') is a species of [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Anacardiaceae]], native to tropical regions of the [[Americas]]. Other common names include '''Red Mombin''', '''Purple Mombin''', '''Ciruela''', or '''Hog Plum'''.<br /> <br /> It is a small to medium-sized [[tree]] up to 25 m tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[deciduous]] in the short [[dry season]], but only fall shortly before the new leaves develop; they are pinnate, with 7-23 leaflets, each leaflet 3-5 cm long and 1.5-2 cm broad. The [[flower]]s are small, reddish-purple, produced in large [[panicle]]s. The [[fruit]] is an edible oval [[drupe]], 3-5 cm long and 2-3.5 cm broad, ripening red (occasionally yellow) and containing a single large [[seed]].<br /> <br /> It is now widely cultivated in tropical regions throughout the world for its edible fruit (it is eaten with salt before they ripen), and is also [[naturalisation (biology)|naturalised]] in some areas, including the [[Philippines]] and [[Nigeria]]. Numerous [[cultivar]]s have been selected for fruit quality. It is also abundant in [[Central America]].<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Miller, A and Schall, B. 2005. Domestication of a Mesoamerican cultivated fruit tree, ''Spondias purpurea''. ''PNAS'' 102:12801–12806<br /> *[http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/purple_mombin.html Purple Mombin]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Sapindales]]<br /> [[Category:Trees of Brazil]]<br /> [[Category:Trees of Central America]]<br /> [[Category:Fruit]]<br /> <br /> {{Sapindales-stub}}</div>

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