''Sideroxylon celastrinum'' is a species of
flowering plant in the family
Sapotaceae, that is native to
Texas and
Florida in the
United States south through
Central America to northern
Venezuela and
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
in
South America. Common names include saffron plum and coma.
It is a spiny shrub or small tree that reaches a height of . The dark green leaves are alternate or fascicled at the nodes and oblanceolate to obovate. Greenish-white flowers are present from May to November and are followed by single-seeded, blue-black
drupe
In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...
s.
Uses
This plant is known as a first choice deer feed.
Synonyms
*''Bumelia angustifolia''
Nutt.
Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.
Nuttall was born in the village of Long Preston, near Settle in the West Riding of Yorkshire and ...
*''Bumelia celastrina''
Kunth
*''Bumelia celastrina'' var. ''angustifolia''
(Nutt.) R.W.Long
*''Bumelia spiniflora''
A.DC.
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (28 October 18064 April 1893) was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.
Biography
De Candolle, son of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, first devot ...
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celastrinum
Plants described in 1990
Trees of the Bahamas
Trees of Central America
Trees of Colombia
Trees of Cuba
Trees of the Southeastern United States
Trees of the South-Central United States
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