NCCWDB

Chiococca alba / Snowberry / 白雪果

  • Introduction
    Chiococca alba  is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) native to Florida and the extreme southern tip of Texas in the United States,[4] Bermuda,[3] Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, and tropical South America.West Indian milkberry is an evergreen[5] woody vine or scrambling shrub that often grows on other vegetation and may reach a height of 6 m (20 ft). The opposite, simple leaves are 5–11 cm (2.0–4.3 in) long and may be elliptic to ovate or broadly lanceolate in shape.Yellow, bell-shaped flowers up to 1 cm (0.39 in) in length appear throughout the yearon racemes or panicles of six of to eight.The fruit is a white drupe 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) in diameter that generally contains two dark brown seeds.
  • Common name: / Snowberry / 白雪果
  • Taxonomy: Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; asterids; lamiids; Gentianales; Rubiaceae; Cinchonoideae; Chiococceae; Chiococ

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