Lycianthes acapulcensis (Baill.) D'Arcy

Flowers grown in greenhouse at UC Berkeley.
Harvested: W*3
A Revision of Lycianthes series Meizonodontae
(UC) UC Berkeley/ (XAL) Institute) de Ecologia, Xalapa
Lycianthes acapulcensis (Baillon) Bitter
Mexico: State of Guerrero; Mpio. Chilpancingo; Botanical Garden of the Universidad
Autonoma de Mexico at Chilpancingo. 4400 ft.
Secondary vegetation that is cut back every year that grows around a gentle drainage. Moist
and hot. Vegetation before botanical garden was mesquite scrub with cultivated fields.
Common, but just in this one spot. Perennial herb from storage root to 2 dm down. Some
plants many branched to about 3 ft x 4 ft around and 2 ft tall, others viney. Immature fruit
green or bluish purple. Mature fruit become black purple.
Informant: Isaac Cabrera Perez, gardener at botanical garden.: Use: Edible fruit. Don Isaac is
from Yexda, in the hills W of Chilpancingo. He says the fruit is common there and around
Chilpancingo. It grows in milpas as well as the forest. Indigenous name:: "huevo de cuervo"
Ellen Dean 281	8 Oct 1991
with Thomas Starbuck
Fieldwork supported by grants and fellowships from:
the National Science Foundation, Explorer's Club, Sigma Xi, Hardman Foundation,
Tinker Foundation, and UC Berkeley
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