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PSIDIUM cattleianum Sabine [family MYRTACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
PSIDIUM cattleianum Sabine [family MYRTACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Hort. Soc. 4: 317, t. 11 (1821); Popenoe, Man. Trop. Fruits: 279, fig. 36 (1920); A. Schroed. in Journ. Arn. Arb. 27: 314 (1946); U.O.P.Z.: 423 (1949); T.T.C.L.: 378 (1949); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 61 (1953); Jex-Blake, Gard. E. Afr. ed. 4: 301 (1957); F.F.N.R.: 303 (1962); Amshoff in Fl. Gabon 11: 5 (1966); F. White in F.Z. 4: 186 (1978); Morton, Fruits Warm Climates: 363, fig. 99 (1987). Type: plant grown at Messrs. Barr & Brookes, Ball’s Pond, Newington from seed received from China (ubi?)
Information
Evergreen shrub or small tree 2–8 m tall with round branchlets. Leaves narrowly to broadly obovate-elliptic, 3.4–12 cm long, 1.6–6 cm wide, rounded to shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous save for short papilla-like hairs on the petiole and margins of base of lamina; lateral nerves in ± 9 pairs. Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs; buds slightly open at the apex, the calyx not quite enclosing the bud; lobes semicircular, 2 mm long, 3 mm wide, glabrous inside. Petals white, ± round, 5 mm diameter. Stamens 5 mm long. Style 5 mm long, distinctly capitate at the apex. Fruit dark purple-red (or yellow in var. lucidum Hort.), globose or obovoid, 2.5–4 cm long. Fig. 12.
Range
DISTR. Widely cultivated in East Africa. The strawberry guava, originally from South America, now widely cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics
Altitude range
0–2100 m
Distribution
UGANDA ‘Not uncommon in Uganda’ ( Dale )KENYA Nairobi Arboretum, Block 10, 8 Feb. 1952, Dyson 195!TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, 29 Oct. 1928, Greenway 948! & Drackenberg Plantation 1, 25 July 1930, Greenway 2308! & W Usambaras, Kitivo N Forest Reserve, 27 Mar. 1971, Shabani 697! & Lushoto, Jägertal, 10 May 1970, Shabani 550!
Notes
Used in the same way as the last species.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
PSIDIUM cattleianum Sabine [family MYRTACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Hort. Soc. 4: 317, t. 11 (1821); Popenoe, Man. Trop. Fruits: 279, fig. 36 (1920); A. Schroed. in Journ. Arn. Arb. 27: 314 (1946); U.O.P.Z.: 423 (1949); T.T.C.L.: 378 (1949); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 61 (1953); Jex-Blake, Gard. E. Afr. ed. 4: 301 (1957); F.F.N.R.: 303 (1962); Amshoff in Fl. Gabon 11: 5 (1966); F. White in F.Z. 4: 186 (1978); Morton, Fruits Warm Climates: 363, fig. 99 (1987). Type: plant grown at Messrs. Barr & Brookes, Ball’s Pond, Newington from seed received from China (ubi?)
Information
Evergreen shrub or small tree 2–8 m tall with round branchlets. Leaves narrowly to broadly obovate-elliptic, 3.4–12 cm long, 1.6–6 cm wide, rounded to shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous save for short papilla-like hairs on the petiole and margins of base of lamina; lateral nerves in ± 9 pairs. Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs; buds slightly open at the apex, the calyx not quite enclosing the bud; lobes semicircular, 2 mm long, 3 mm wide, glabrous inside. Petals white, ± round, 5 mm diameter. Stamens 5 mm long. Style 5 mm long, distinctly capitate at the apex. Fruit dark purple-red (or yellow in var. lucidum Hort.), globose or obovoid, 2.5–4 cm long. Fig. 12.
Range
DISTR. Widely cultivated in East Africa. The strawberry guava, originally from South America, now widely cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics
Altitude range
0–2100 m
Distribution
UGANDA ‘Not uncommon in Uganda’ ( Dale )KENYA Nairobi Arboretum, Block 10, 8 Feb. 1952, Dyson 195!TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, 29 Oct. 1928, Greenway 948! & Drackenberg Plantation 1, 25 July 1930, Greenway 2308! & W Usambaras, Kitivo N Forest Reserve, 27 Mar. 1971, Shabani 697! & Lushoto, Jägertal, 10 May 1970, Shabani 550!
Notes
Used in the same way as the last species.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
PSIDIUM cattleianum Sabine [family MYRTACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Hort. Soc. 4: 317, t. 11 (1821); Popenoe, Man. Trop. Fruits: 279, fig. 36 (1920); A. Schroed. in Journ. Arn. Arb. 27: 314 (1946); U.O.P.Z.: 423 (1949); T.T.C.L.: 378 (1949); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 61 (1953); Jex-Blake, Gard. E. Afr. ed. 4: 301 (1957); F.F.N.R.: 303 (1962); Amshoff in Fl. Gabon 11: 5 (1966); F. White in F.Z. 4: 186 (1978); Morton, Fruits Warm Climates: 363, fig. 99 (1987). Type: plant grown at Messrs. Barr & Brookes, Ball’s Pond, Newington from seed received from China (ubi?)
Information
Evergreen shrub or small tree 2–8 m tall with round branchlets. Leaves narrowly to broadly obovate-elliptic, 3.4–12 cm long, 1.6–6 cm wide, rounded to shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous save for short papilla-like hairs on the petiole and margins of base of lamina; lateral nerves in ± 9 pairs. Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs; buds slightly open at the apex, the calyx not quite enclosing the bud; lobes semicircular, 2 mm long, 3 mm wide, glabrous inside. Petals white, ± round, 5 mm diameter. Stamens 5 mm long. Style 5 mm long, distinctly capitate at the apex. Fruit dark purple-red (or yellow in var. lucidum Hort.), globose or obovoid, 2.5–4 cm long. Fig. 12.
Range
DISTR. Widely cultivated in East Africa. The strawberry guava, originally from South America, now widely cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics
Altitude range
0–2100 m
Distribution
UGANDA ‘Not uncommon in Uganda’ ( Dale )KENYA Nairobi Arboretum, Block 10, 8 Feb. 1952, Dyson 195!TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, 29 Oct. 1928, Greenway 948! & Drackenberg Plantation 1, 25 July 1930, Greenway 2308! & W Usambaras, Kitivo N Forest Reserve, 27 Mar. 1971, Shabani 697! & Lushoto, Jägertal, 10 May 1970, Shabani 550!
Notes
Used in the same way as the last species.
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