Casimiroa
Casimiroa {{{latin_name}}}
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Casimiroa (named in honor of Cardinal Casimiro Gomez de Ortega, Spanish botanist of the eighteenth century). Rutaceae. Evergreen trees, one of which, the White Sapote (C. edulis) is grown for the edible fruits.CH Leaves alternate, long-petioled, digitate, 3-7-foliolate; lfts. petiolulate, lanceolate, entire or slightly serrate, smooth or pubescent beneath: fls. regular, polygamo-dioecious; calyx 5-parted, small; petals 5, oblong, valvate, apex incurved; disk inconspicuous, circular; stamens 5, free; filaments subulate; anthers cordate; ovary sessile, on disk, globose, 5- or occasionally 6-8- lobed, 5-celled; stigma sessile, 5-lobed; ovules solitary in the cells, axillary: fr. a drupe, large, depressed-globose; pulp agreeable to taste, edible; seeds oblong, compressed, exalbuminose.—Four species in Mex. and S. CH
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Species
- Casimiroa edulis - White Sapote
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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