Anisocapparis speciosa (Griseb.) Cornejo & Iltis

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The New York Botanical Garden
Plants of BOLIVIA
Capparaceae Capparis speciosa Griseb.
det.M. Nee, 2011
DEPTO. SANTA Cruz, Prov. Florida, along what was the
old horse and mule trail (in Theodore Herzog’s time, 1911),
between El Palo and Mataral, 1 km ESE of El Palo, and 0.4
km WSW of jet. of Vallegrande road and main highway in
Mataral.
18°06’55’S, 64°13’07”W. alt. 1385 m.
Slight slopes and bottom of valley, grazed thom scrub with
Neoraimondia herzogiana, Pereskia sacharosa, Cereus
comarapcmus, Capparis speciosa and edges of cultivated
fields on flat.
“alcaparro” Shrubs to 3 m. tall, common here. Fruit green,
and the exocarp remaining so. Fruits falling to ground and
sometimes the ripest ones separating into two parts along
the sutures. Seeds white; pulp orange. The younger cut
fruits with strong smell of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), the
riper ones with a disagreeable odor. Fruits said to be eaten
by cattle and sometimes by people on the theory that what
animals eat, people can, too.
Coll.: M. Nee & J. M. Mendoza F. 57730 7 Jan. 2011
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