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Chiococca alba (L.) Hitchc.

Chiococca alba (L.) Hitchc.

Chiococca alba
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Chiococca alba (L.) Hitchc.. Chiococca alba is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) native to Florida and the extreme southern tip of Texas in the United States, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, and tropical South America. Common names include David's milkberry, West Indian milkberry, cahinca and West Indian snowberry. The specific epithet, alba, means "white" in Latin and refers to the color of its fruits.

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Native range

Native range not recorded for this plant. Often a non-native cultivar or naturalized garden plant.

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