| Type | Exotic |
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| Family | Lecythidaceae |
| Common Name | Cannon ball tree |
| Origin | S. America |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, crowed at the apices of branchlets estipulate; petiole 20-40 mm long, stout, swollen at the tip and base, glabrous; lamina 10-21 x 4.5-10 cm, obovate or oblong-ovate, base obtuse, apex acute, obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, crenate or serrate, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-11 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, pink, in racemes on trunk on lower branches; sepals short; petals 5 x 2.5 cm; stamens many, fused into a curved spathulate androphore; ovary half inferior. Fruit globose, berry, surface scurfy, to 10-12 cm across. |
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