- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Muntingia calabura
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Elaeocarpaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Bird’s cherry, Jamaica cherry, Pancharapazham.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- Almost throughout the year.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of Tropical America.
- 💡 Status
- Not Evaluated.
Description: Small tree, with densely pubescent branches. Leaves simple, alternate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, wooly beneath. Flowers axillary, white. Fruit subglobose berry, red or yellow when ripe.
Uses: Grown in gardens as an avenue tree. Fruits are edible.