Common Name: governor's plum
Family: Salicaceae
Common Synonyms: none
USDA Hardiness Zone: NA
Growth Habit: Shrub or Tree
Origin: Southeast Africa, India, Southern Asia, and the Phillipines
FISC Category: 2
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: 1924
IFAS Assessment:
Evergreen shrub or tree to 10 m tall with sharp spines in the leaf axils and on trunk. Leaves alternate, simple, leathery, to 8 cm long, shape variable, margins toothed to wavy, glabrous or pubescent. Plants dioecious, flowers small and yellowish in small clusters in the leaf axils. Fruit a round edible berry to 2 cm, red to purple when ripe.
Rockland hammock, maritime hammock, pine rockland, scrub, disturbed sites
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Langeland, K.A., H.M. Cherry, C.M. McCormick, K.C. Burks. 2008. Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas-Second Edition. IFAS Publication SP 257. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.