Hog plum is a common name for several plants that produce edible fruit, and may refer to:
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Spondias
''Spondias'' is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. The genus consists of 17 described species, 7 of which are native to the Neotropics and about 10 are native to tropical Asia. They are commonly named hog plums, Sp ...
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Spondias dulcis
''Spondias dulcis'' ( syn. ''Spondias cytherea''), known commonly as Polynesian plum or Tahiti apple, is a tropical fruit tree native to Melanesia, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit.
The tree was spread to neighboring regions as ca ...
'' (June plum, golden apple, pommecythere, cythere)
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Spondias mombin
''Spondias mombin'', also known as yellow mombin, hog plum, amra or cajazeira, is a species of tree and flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, including the West Indies. The tree was introduced by the ...
'' (yellow mombin, amra, cajazeira)
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Spondias pinnata''
*Species of the genus ''
Colubrina
''Colubrina'' is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia, northern Australia, and the Indian Ocean islands.
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Prunus rivularis
''Prunus rivularis'', known variously by the common names creek plum, hog plum, or wild-goose plum is a thicket-forming shrub. It prefers calcareous clay soil or limestone-based woodland soils. This deciduous plant belongs to the rose family, Ro ...
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Prunus umbellata
''Prunus umbellata'', called flatwoods plum, hog plum and sloe plum, is a plum species native to the United States from Virginia, south to Florida, and west to Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South C ...
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Ximenia americana
''Ximenia americana'', commonly known as tallow wood, hog plum, yellow plum, sea lemon, or pi'ut (Chamorro language, Chamorro), is bush-forming shrub/small tree; a species from the ''Ximenia'' genus in the Olacaceae family. It is mainly found in ...
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Elaeocarpus hygrophilus'' (makok nam, water olive)
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