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Marlberry
Ardisia escallonioides
Ardisia escallonioides, the Island marlberry, is a plant species native to the West Indies and neighboring areas. It has been reported from Barbados, Bermuda, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Florida.
Ardisia escallonioides is a shrub or tree up to 15 m (50 feet) tall. It has elliptic leaves up to 17 cm (7 in) long. Flowers are borne in a panicle of up to 20 flowers. Each flower is white to pink, up to 7 mm (0.3 in) across. Fruits are fleshy drupes up to 7 mm (0.3 in) across, red at first then turning black.
From the article Ardisia escallonioides on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
At the table
Fruits of A. escallonioides are reported to be edible, but some consider the taste to be unpleasant.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 131598.