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Black sapote
Diospyros digna
20.8398, -86.8878
Field Notes
Description:
Photo take in the jungle.
More common know as the chicle tree.
This rather slow growing, medium size handsome tree has deciduous, shiny, dark green leaves. The flowers, borne in the leaf axils, are tubular, white, with persistent green calyx
Habitat:
The plant is subtropical, It originates from Mexico and lowlands of Central America. The plant was carried by the Spaniards to the Philippines before 1692, and eventually reached Malacca, Mauritius, Hawaii, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic
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Diospyros digyna
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 18, 2012
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