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Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni

Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni

Pouteria campechiana
Photo: Augustus Binu : flickr · CC BY-SA 3.0

Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. Pouteria campechiana is an evergreen tree native to, and cultivated in, southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is cultivated in other countries, such as India, Costa Rica, Brazil, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Philippines. The edible part of the tree is its fruit, which is colloquially known as an egg fruit.

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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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