Mammea

Plant Characteristics

Habit		tree
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Features:	✓	evergreen

Scientific Names

Clusiaceae >

Ochrocarpos >

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Mammea is a flowering plant genus with about 50 species in the family Clusiaceae. Its members are evergreen trees having edible one-seeded fruits. The flowers are polygamous, with a globular calyx opening into two valvate sepals. There are 4 to 6 petals. Indehiscent drupes are formed, containing 1 to 4 seeds. The leaves are rigid, coriaceous and often have pellucid dots.

One species (Mammea americana) is found in tropical America and the West Indies, one species in tropical Africa, 20 in Madagascar and 27 in Indomalaya and the Pacific region.

Read about Mammea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Ochrocarpos (Greek, yellow fruit). Incl. Calysaccion. Guttiferae. Trees, of about 20 species, widespread in the tropics, little known horticulturally. Lvs. opposite or in 3's, coriaceous: fls. axillary, polygamous, the petals 4-7 or more: stamens indefinite, free or somewhat connate, the filaments slender and anthers erect; ovary 2-celled: fr. berry-like, with a few large seeds. O. africanus, Oliver, is a tree 40-50 ft. high: Lvs. large, oblong-elliptical, with the midrib very prominent beneath: fls. from the nodes of the fallen Lvs., 1½ in. diam., the petals half as long again as sepals; stamens very many: fr. very large, several inches diam., with yellow pulp. Upper Guinea. O. obovalis, Safford, is the 'chopag" of Guam, the wood of which is used in house- construction. It is a medium-sized tree, with opposite short-petioled obovate or oblong- obovate entire Lvs. rounded at the apex, and fragrant white polygamous fls. borne laterally, single or clustered The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Species

• Mammea africana – African mammee apple
• Mammea asiatica
• Mammea cerera
• Mammea coumarins
• Mammea emarginata
• Mammea grandifolia
• Mammea immansueta
• Mammea longifolia
• Mammea malayana
• Mammea novoguineensis
• Mammea odorata – chopak
• Mammea papuana
• Mammea papyracea
• Mammea siamensis
• Mammea suriga
• Mammea timorensis
• Mammea touriga
• Mammea usambarensis
• Mammea veimauriensis

Synonyms of this genus are:

• Ochrocarpos Noronha ex Thouars
• Paramammea J.-F.Leroy

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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