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Lucuma (Peruvian name of one species). Sapotaceae. A group of tropical trees and shrubs, several of which are cultivated, principally in America, for their edible fruits. Other well-known trees which belong to the same family are the sapodilla (Achras Sapota) and the star-apple (Chrysophyllum Cainito), both of which resemble the lucumas in having fruits with soft, melting flesh of very sweet flavor.
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The genus is characterized by lvs. more or less elongate, usually broadened upward; by the imbricate calyx, with lobes in 1 or 2 series: and by the tubular corolla, with stamens opposite the lobes, alternating with the staminodes. The fr. is a berry, 2-10-celled, the seeds exalbuminous.—Species perhaps 60, mostly in Amer. but extending to New Guinea and Austral.
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