Dondisia foetida Hasskl.; Vangueria acutiloba Robyns;
Vangueria commersonii Jacq.; Vangueria cymosa C.F.Gaertn.;
Vangueria edulis Lam. [Illegitimate]; Vangueria edulis Vahl;
Vangueria floribunda Robyns; Vangueria robynsii Tennant;
Vangueria venosa Hochst. ex A.Rich. [Invalid]; Vavanga chinensis Rohr; Vavanga edulis Vahl);
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Tropical & S. Africa, Comoros, Madagascar: Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre; Introduced into: Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, India, Leeward Is., Marquesas, New Caledonia, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Seychelles, Trinidad-Tobago as per POWO;
Vangueria madagascariensis, commonly known by the names Spanish-tamarind,[2] or tamarind-of-the-Indies,[2] is a species offlowering plant in the Rubiaceae family native to the African continent having edible fruit.[2] It is the type species of the genusVangueria and was described in 1791 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin.[3]
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June 2014
Randia sp?
Can you send the photographs of a fresh fruit, if you can.
I can maybe get fresh fruits in a couple of weeks.
Until then, any possible id?
Vangueria edulis, its an African plant
Vangueria madagascariensis J.F.Gmel SN AUG 39 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (3).
Vangueria madagascariensis J.F.Gmel (= Vangueria edulis Vahl), Spanish-tamarind, Rubiaceae shrub/ small tree cultivated in Biocentre, Hulimavu, Bangalore, an introduced species.
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