Synonym: Cordia dentata
English:
Spanish: Flore De Angel.
Region: northern S. America, Ecuador, Venezuela; Central America, Panama to Mexico; Caribbean.
Habitat: dry, sandy or rocky slopes and hills, damp or dry thickets or mixed forest; grassy plains and pastures; sea level to elevations of 900 metres; moist but freely draining loam.
Use: fruit sweet, edible; ornamental, for flowers, screen or background filler; wood for carpentry, fence posts, fuel; fruits for coagulating the dye indigo; fruit pulp as an adhesive on paper, for fastening cigar wrappers.
BotanyShrub or small tree; 15 metres tall.
Stem: short; crooked; bark light brown, scaly; wood yellow, strong, hard.
Leaves: evergreen, but deciduous in prolonged drought.
Flowers: exquisite; white or pale yellow; sweetly scented
Fruits: oblong; 16 mm long; sweet, sticky pulp; flesh white, transparent, mucilaginous, extremely sweet.