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General Information

Pouteria ucuqui is a large evergreen tree with a heavy crown[]. The bole is unbranched for much of its length and has large buttresses at the base[].
The fruit is a favourite food of the local people and is avidly collected from the wild. The tree is usually left standing as a fruit crop when the forest is cleared for cultivation.

Known Hazards

None known

Botanical References

Range

S. America - northern Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela.

Habitat

Rainforest[].

Properties

Edibility Rating
Medicinal Rating
Other Uses Rating
Habit	Evergreen Tree
Height	0.00 m
Pollinators	Bees, Insects
Cultivation Status	Semi-cultivated, Wild

Cultivation Details

The tree has a very short period of flowering, probably less than three days[].

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw[]. A delicious flavour when fully ripe[]. Eaten fresh, or mixed with cassava to produce a porridge[]. The unripe fruit is full of latex and is extremely sticky[].
The Ocoki is a large pear-shaped fruit, with a hard thick outer skin of almost woody texture, then a small quantity of very sweet pulpy matter, and within a large black oval stone[]. The pulp is very luscious, but is so acrid as to make the mouth and throat sore, if more than two or three are eaten. When, however, the juice is boiled it loses this property; and when made into mingau with tapioca, is exceedingly palatable and very highly esteemed in the Upper Rio Negro, where it is abundant[].

Medicinal

The fruit is sometimes used as a vermifuge[].

Other Uses

The seeds are used to make toy whistles. All of the interior of the seed (the cotyledons) is removed and a number of holes, over which the fingers are placed, are made[].

Propagation

Seed -

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