| Type | Exotic |
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| Family | Sapotaceae |
| Common Name | Egg fruit |
| Origin | Tropical America |
| Botanical Features | Small trees, bark greyish-brown, blaze pink, latex milky, sticky; young branchlets finely adpressed tomentose becoming glabrous. Leaves simple, clustered at apex of branchlets, spirally arranged, estipulate; petiole 1-5 cm long, puberulus; lamina 8-32 x 2.5-6 cm, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, base cuneate to attenuate, apex acuminate, glabrous, margin entire; lateral nerves 9-22 pairs, pinnate, glabrous, flowers in fascicles of 2 or 3, axillary and from below the leaves, creamy white, fruit orange yellow, depressed globose or conical; seeds 1-6, brown, broadly ellipsoid. |
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