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General Information

Duguetia calycina is a shrub or a tree, usually growing around 1 - 10 metres tall but exceptionally reaching 30 metres. The bole is usually around 2 - 18cm in diameter, though specimens up to 40cm have been recorded[].
The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.
Duguetia calycina has a very wide distribution, large population, is not currently experiencing any major threats and no significant future threats have been identified. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2018)[].

Known Hazards

None known

Botanical References

Range

S. America - northern Brazil, the Guyanas, Venezuela

Habitat

Generally in non-inundated forest, sometimes in periodically inundated forests, rarely on savannahs, growing on white sands, occasionally on clayey soils; at elevations from sea level to 700 metres[].

Properties

Conservation Status	Least Concern
Edibility Rating
Medicinal Rating
Habit	Tree
Height	0.00 m
Pollinators	Insects
Cultivation Status	Wild

Cultivation Details

Not known

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw. A sweet flavour[]. The brownish to yellow, ellipsoid to subglobose fruit is 30 - 80mm long and 20 - 45mm in diameter, composed of 50 - 100 fertile carpels each 11 - 20mm long and 5 - 10mm in diameter[].

Medicinal

A decoction of the leaves and bark is used to treat headaches[].

The plant (part not specified) is used in combination with the leaves of black sage (Varronia curassavica) and breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis), to treat hypertension[].

Other Uses

None known

Propagation

Seed -

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