Chrysobalanus

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Chrysobalanus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Chrysobalanus (golden acorn, from the Greek, referring to the fruit). Rosaceae. Bushes or trees, planted far south for ornament; fruit often edible. Leaves thick and coriaceous, entire, glabrous: fls. white, rather small, in axillary or terminal short cymes; calyx 5-parted; petals 5, clawed; stamens 15 to many, some of them perhaps sterile: fr. a dryish-pulpy drupe, with stone pointed at base and ridged.—Two species in tropics of Amer. and Afr., reaching Fla., and another one in S. U. S. ^CH 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

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