Aristotelia chilensis
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Aristotelia chilensis is a species of plant in the Elaeocarpaceae family from Chile and Argentina . She is known as a maqui .
description
Aristotelia chilensis grows as an evergreen shrub up to about 4–5 meters high, but it should also be a lot bigger.
The simple and stalked leaves are (cross) opposite. The petioles are up to 2–2.5 centimeters long and are often reddish. The leaves are ovate to obovate, leathery and glabrous, rounded to pointed or pointed and usually serrate at the edge, at the base they are blunt to truncated and often minimally heart-shaped. They are 6-11 inches long and 3.5-6 inches wide. There are minimal stipules .
Aristotelia chilensis is dioecious diocesan . Short, axillary and little-flowered cymes or umbrella clusters are formed. The small and stalked, functionally unisexual flowers with a double flower envelope are usually five-fold. The small, almost free sepals are hairy and narrow-triangular, the short, up to 4 millimeters long and upright, mostly truncated petals are roof-top. The male flowers have about 10–15 short stamens and a pistillode. The female flowers have a dreikammerigen, Upper permanent and bare ovary with short style with scalloped scars branches and some short staminodes. There is one discus each.
There are 4–6 millimeters large, rounded and multi-seeded (2–8), black, fleshy, shiny berries with remnants of stigmas. The round to egg-shaped, one-sided flattened and reddish to brownish seeds are 2–3 millimeters in size.
use
The fruits, the maqui berries , are edible; they are used raw or dried like grapes.
The leaves and fruits are also used medicinally.
literature
- K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. VI: lowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-05714-4 (Reprint), pp. 135-139.
- Jaime Salinas: Monografía de MAQUI Aristotelia chilensis (Mol.) Stuntz. Instituto Forestal, 2012, ISBN 978-956-318-068-8 , online at researchgate.net.
- Hermine Vogel, Patricio Peñailillo, Ursula Doll et al .: Maqui (Aristotelia chilensis): Morpho-phenological characterization to design high-yielding cultivation techniques. In: Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. 1 (4), 2014, pp. 123-133, doi: 10.1016 / j.jarmap.2014.09.001 , online at researchgate.net.
Web links
- Aristotelia chilensis at Useful Temperate Plants.
- Aristotelia chilensis at Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER).
- Aristotelia chilensis at Chileflora (more pictures below at photos).