Patinoa almirajo
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Patinoa almirajo is a tree in the woolen family from Colombia to neighboring Peru , Brazil and Panama . In Colombia it is known as Almirajó or Mirajó .
description
Patinoa almirajo grows as a tree about 15–20 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches about 25 centimeters.
The stalked, simple and leathery leaves are alternate and drooping. The petiole is up to 3–5 inches long. The entire, glabrous and ovate to obovate or elliptical to oblong leaves are pointed, pointed to tail. They are 15–34 centimeters long, up to 15 centimeters wide and at the base they are rounded to slightly heart-shaped. The nerve is palmate, the small stipules are sloping.
The flowers appear opposite the leaves individually or in pairs at the branch ends. The relatively large, hermaphrodite and stalked flowers are five-fold with a double flower envelope . The thick and bald pedicel is up to 1.5 centimeters long, there are small, sloping bracts . The outside bald and inside thickly hairy, up to 3 centimeters long calyx is tubular with 4 to 5 small, triangular lobes. The narrow, tongue-shaped and long, fine-haired, laid back 5 greenish petals are about 7.5 centimeters long and are attached to the stamen at the bottom. The stamens are fused in a long, narrow and bare tube, with 5 free, pointed branches at the top, each with several seated anthers. The above constant and hairy ovary is fünfkammerig, -eckig with a long, hairy, in the upper part thickened pen having free at the top, short, slender and acute scars branches .
There are large, up to 20-25 centimeters long and 9-10 centimeters wide, multi-seeded, obovate to ellipsoidal, orange-brown to brownish, non-opening, often pointed, almost bare fruits, berries (armored berries ) with thick, soft -Leathered, slightly rough shell. The approximately 20-25 about 2.3-2.8 centimeters large, leathery, elliptical to round, slightly flattened seeds are short, dense, brownish and woolly hairy and they lie in rows in the fruit chambers in a soft and floury-fibrous, orange - yellow pulp.
use
The sweet fruits are edible and appreciated in Colombia.
literature
- José Cuatrecasas: Un nouveau genre de Bombacées, Patinoa. In: Journal d'agriculture traditionnelle et de botanique appliquée. 369-370, 1953, pp. 306-313, online at Persée.
- Julio S. Inglez Souza, Aristeu Mendes Peixoto, Francisco Ferraz de Toledo: Enciclopédia Agrícola Brasileira. 1: A-B , EDUSP, 1995, ISBN 85-314-0129-1 .
- K. Kubitzki , C. Bayer: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. V: Flowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-3-642-07680-0 , p. 275.
Web links
- Patinoa almirajo at Useful Tropical Plants.