Chiba University Matsudo/Kashiwa Campus Plant Database

Details of genus: Malpighia [1938]

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Family: Malpighiaceae

family_ja: キントラノオ

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description_en: Genus of about 45 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees found in dry woodland in tropical North, Central, and South America, especially the Caribbean. They are grown for their opposite, simple, often toothed and leathery leaves, and their star-shaped to shallowly trumpet-shaped flowers, each with 5 unequally sized, clawed petals, often with crimped, waved, or fringed tips or margins. Flowers are borne singly or in axillary or terminal corymbs, followed by colourful, edible fruits. Where temperatures fall below 16°C (61°F), grow in a temperate or warm greenhouse. Elsewhere, use as specimen trees, in a shrub border, or for hedging.

hardiness_en: Frost tender.

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propagation_en: Sow seed at 18-24°C (64-75°F) in spring. Root semi-ripe cuttings with bottom heat in summer.

pests_en: Red spider mites may be troublesome under glass.

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comment_ja: アセロラ(acerola)

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Update Information: Created: 2007-12-06 12:51; Updated: 2020-09-04 03:56

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