Eugenia dysenterica
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Eugenia dysenterica also Cagaita is a plant from the genus of Eugenia ( Eugenia ) in the family of myrtle (Myrtaceae).
description
Eugenia dysenterica is a smaller tree that sheds deciduous trees in the dry season, reaches heights of growth of 4 to 10 meters or more and a trunk diameter of around 25 to 35 centimeters. It forms a dense treetop and the bark is corky, very thick and heavily furrowed and cracked.
The simple leaves are arranged opposite each other and have a short stalk. The simple, bald, leathery and egg-shaped leaf blade is entire, rounded to rounded or pointed to pointed, less often indented and aromatic. It is about 6-14 inches long and 4-8 inches wide. The new shoot is copper to bronze colored.
The fragrant, hermaphrodite and white, stalked, only briefly blooming flowers with a double bloom and many stamens stand individually or up to six in the leaf axils at the branch ends, often before the new foliage sprouts. There are four sepals and petals and the ovary is below. The Pollination is mainly by bees .
The slightly flattened, roughly spherical, yellow to orange, thin-skinned berry with a diameter of 3 to 5 cm is bare, fleshy and juicy and contains one to four seeds. The beige seeds up to 1.5–2 centimeters in size separate from the inside of the “ pulp ” when ripe . The durable sepals remain at the top of the fruit. The seeds are not able to germinate long after they have been removed from the fruit, in particular dehydration leads to a loss of germinability. Germination is hypogean . The highest germination rate has large seeds that come from fully ripe fruit picked from the ground
distribution
Eugenia dysenterica is native to the savannah landscapes of Central Brazil ( Cerrado ).
use
The wood is heavy (0.82 g / cm³), moderately hard and durable. It is used on the farms to make rustic furniture, as firewood and to make charcoal.
The fruits are edible and are used raw or cooked. The juicy flesh has a pleasant, sour taste.
The fruits are used in folk medicine as a laxative and a tea made from the leaves is used as a remedy for diarrhea. Eating large amounts of fruit can lead to mild intoxication.
In the past, the bark was widely used to make tan for leather tanning.
literature
- Sueli Rodrigues, Ebenezer de Oliveira Silva, Edy Sousa de Brito: Exotic Fruits Reference Guide. Academic Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-12-803138-4 , pp. 77 ff.
Web links
- Eugenia dysenterica at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Cagaita at Biólogo (Port.)
- as Stenocalyx dysentericus in Flora brasiliensis, CRIA.
- Eugenia dysenterica in Projeto Colecionando Frutas.
Individual evidence
- ^ EF Duarte, RV Naves, JD Borges, NNR Guimarães: Germinação e vigor de sementes de cagaita (Eugenia dysenterica MART. Ex DC.) Em função de seu tamanho e tipo de coleta. In: Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical. Volume 36 (3), 2006, pp. 173–179, online (PDF) (Port.)
- ↑ Cagaiteira Boletim Técnico, n.º 78, 2008, pp. 1–21, (PDF) (Port.)