Trees & Plants

Sea lemon

En boo, Umbuvah

Ximenia americana L.

Occasional in forest areas The fruits are edible, eaten raw or cooked and used for making juice, jelly and wine. The leaves and twigs are used to treat fever, colds, as a laxative and an eye lotion. They are also a remedy for headaches, angina, and are a poison antidote. The root

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uses: The fruits are edible, eaten raw or cooked and used for making juice, jelly and wine. The leaves and twigs are used to treat fever, colds, as a laxative and an eye lotion. They are also a remedy for headaches, angina, and are a poison antidote. The roots are used to treat skin problems, headaches, venereal disease and sleeping sickness. or or or in in
family: Olacaceae
synonym: Heymassoli spinosa Aubl., Ximenia aculeata Crantz
description: Shrubs or small trees; branchlets usually spiny. Leaves simple, alternate, × crowded, 3-5 2-3 cm, ovate, elliptic, or obovate, more or less leathery, base obtuse, apex obtuse, apiculate, mucronulate, or sometimes emarginate; secondary veins 3-5 on each side of the midvein; petiole 3-5 mm. Cymes or racemes 1.5-2.5 cm, 3-6-flowered. Pedicel 2-3 mm. Calyx cupular, ca. 1 mm. Petals 4 or 5, white or greenish, oblong, 5-7 mm. Stamens 8 or 10. Ovary ovoid-conical. Drupe lemon-yellow or orange-red, globose to ovoid, 2-3 cm in diam.
native range: Australia and Asia
distribution: Pantropical
english names: Sea lemon · Tallow wood · Yellow plum
flowering fruiting: January – June
occurrence maldives: Occasional in forest areas