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Species: Chrysobalanus icaco
Collection Date: September 10, 1965
Bar Code ID: 000001084
UUID: 0f0f5c3a-f05e-47b7-ba6d-16e4f44952da
Collectors: William R. Stimson
Collector's Identifier: 2082
Flower Buds Present?: False
Flowers Present?: False
Fruit Present?: True
Country: United States
State or Province: Florida
County or Parish: Palm Beach
Fips Code: 12099
Nearest Named Place: Boca Raton
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Verbatim Directions to Locality: just southeast of where Boca Raton Road crosses expressway; this spot is several miles west of Boca Raton; at edge of pine woods and near the road.
Habitat: pinelands; at edge of pine woods and near the road.
Plant Morphology Observations: bushes about 12 ft. high; most fruit still immature; one mature fruit seen: pericarp was white; fruit is edible and so is the nut within the seed.
Type of Donor: Herbarium
Donor: Herbarium of Duke University (DUKE)
Non digital information?: N

Identification Records

Identifier's Name:
Text Identification Date: 10 September 1965
Formal Identification Date: 1965-09-10
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Chrysobalanus icaco L.; coll. William R. Stimson; 10 September 1965
Identifier's Name: - Whetstone
Text Identification Date: 1988
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Chrysobalanus icaco L.; Whetstone & Nixon; 1988

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