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- Common name:
- Cocoplum
- Category:
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Trees, Shrubs
- Family:
- Chrysobalanaceae
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate less
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Year-around flowering, Flowers in flushes throughout the year, Flowers are inconspicuous
- Flower or Inflorescence color:
- Yellow
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 4 to 6 meters
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 2 to 4 meters
- Plant Form:
- Irregular, Spreading
- Special Character:
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- Rare Plant or difficult to get plant
- Good for making bonsai
- Good for Topiary
- Good for screening
- Good for Hedges and Borders
- Attracts birds
- Attracts bees
- Evergreen trees
- Suitable for avenue planting
- Salt or salinity tolerant
- Good on seaside
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Plant Description:
- - Origin - Trop. America to Trop. Africa
- Leaves - simple, rich green, almost round, shiny and leathery.
- Flowers - inconspicuous, greenish white, in erect clusters at leaf axils.
- Fruit - a drupe, to 4 cm, pink, crimson, whitish or purple, fleshy, edible, seed oily.
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Growing tips:
- - Easy plant to grow.
- Requires sandy soils with good drainage.
- Regular irrigation will keep the plant green.