Jewish plum
மாரிமா
Spondias dulcis Parkinson
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 13 m
- wide
- 15 m
Anacardiaceae
Formerly Chrysomelon pomiferum, Cytheraea dulcis, Evia acida, Evia dulcis, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Malesia to Santa Cruz Is.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 13 m to 14 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 10–12 m; Plants for a Future 15–15 m
- Spread
- 15 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -3 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 南洋橄榄, 食用槟榔青
- Tamil
- மாரிமா
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Spondias dulcis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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