Vasconcellea candicans
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Vasconcellea candicans is a small tree native to the western slopes of the Andes in southern Ecuador and Peru.[1]
Description
Small dioecious shrub or tree to 8 m high.[1] Leaves ovate or almost rounded, with a slightly cordate base, margin entire or sometimes sinuately dentate and obtuse or acute apex; palmately veined; glabrous above, hairy below.[2] Male inflorescence a small cyme with many flowers; tiny 5- or 7-lobed calyx; 5- or 7- lobed corolla; stamens twice as many as the lobes of the corolla, with linear-oblong anthers.[2] Flowers greenish to purplish. Fruit ellipsoidal, yellow green at maturity, 10-18 x 4-6 cm; many seeds.[1]
Vernacular names
Chungay (in Ecuador).[1]
Mito, uliucana, jerju, odeque (in Peru).[1]
Uses
Edible fruit.[1]
Cultivation
Propagated by seeds.[1]