Myrcia multiflora
Myrcia multiflora
Synonyms: Eugenia multiflora, Aulomyrcia laruotteana var. peruviana, Aulomyrcia glaucescens, Myrcia camaraeana, Myrcia glaucescens, Myrcia taubatensis, Myrcia glaberrima, Aulomyrcia sphaerocarpa var. arborescens, Aulomyrcia sphaerocarpa var. complicata, Myrcia ellipticifolia, Aulomyrcia sphaerocarpa var. obtusata, Aulomyrcia sphaerocarpa var. ovata, Aulomyrcia sphaerocarpa var. gracilis, Aulomyrcia sphaerocarpa, Aulomyrcia sphaerocarpa var. intermedia, Myrcia sphaerocarpa, Aulomyrcia perforata, Aulomyrcia sphaerocarpa var. pauciflora, Aulomyrcia multiflora var. grandifolia, Aulomyrcia camareana, Aulomyrcia goyazensis, Myrcia heringeriana, Myrcia caerulescens, Aulomyrcia glaucescens var. grandifolia, Myrcia pallida, Aulomyrcia glaucescens var. parvifolia, Myrcia multiflora var. glaucescens, Aulomyrcia multiflora, Aulomyrcia pallida, Aulomyrcia vinacea, Aulomyrcia ovalifolia, Aulomyrcia buxifolia, Aulomyrcia caerulescens, Aulomyrcia caesia, Myrcia multiflora f. ovalifolia, Myrcia multiflora var. ramulosa, Myrcia multiflora f. glaucescens, Cumetea multiflora, Myrcia ovalifolia
Botanical Description
Myrcia multiflora is a small evergreen tree or large shrub of the Myrtaceae family, widely distributed across Central and South America from southern Mexico and the Caribbean through Amazonia to southern Brazil and northern Argentina. Plants typically grow 3 to 8 metres tall, occasionally taller, with a slender trunk and smooth to slightly flaking pale brown bark. Leaves are opposite, simple, lance-shaped to elliptic, 4 to 10 cm long, leathery, glossy dark green above and paler beneath, and dotted with translucent glands that release a faintly aromatic scent when crushed, as is characteristic of the family. Small white flowers with four petals and a prominent boss of numerous white stamens are borne in many-flowered terminal and axillary panicles, the abundance of blossom reflected in the specific epithet multiflora. The fruit is a small, rounded, dark purple to black berry crowned by the persistent calyx, eaten by birds and small mammals. The species grows in cerrado, gallery forest, savanna woodland and forest edges across its wide neotropical range.
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Traditional American Uses
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