Parmentiera cereifera

Parmentiera cereifera
English: Candle tree.
Region: Panama.
Use: ornamental tree.
Botany: tree, up to 6 meters tall; leaves opposite, three leaflets, winged petioles; flower solitary or borne in a cluster of up to four, greenish white; fruit a taper-shaped berry, up to 60 centimeters long, green, ripening yellow, waxy in texture; fruit fleshy, edible.

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