Coffea arabica

Shrub up to 7 m high, thin trunk, straight. Short-petiolate leaves, elliptic to oblong, shiny, subcoriaceous, from 7 to 15 cm. Flowers in axillary groups, fragrant, usually sessile; truncated calyx; white petals. Oblong to globose berry, 10 to 16 mm, red when ripe.

Citrus sinensis

Medium sized tree up to 6 m, round crown; branches with thin, flexible thorns, occasionally absent. Widely elliptical leaves 6 to 11 cm long with obtuse or sharp apex, cradle to rounded base. Flowers solitary or in short, white, aromatic racemes. Globose or oval fruit, with 10 to 13 segments, yellowish, sweet pulp.

Citrus maxima

Tree up to 9 m high, armed with thin thorns. Ovate or elliptic-ovate leaves of 10 to 20 cm in length, slightly pubescent on the underside; broadly winged petiole. Large, solitary flowers or in axillary clusters with wide, white petals; stamens 20 to 25; globular ovary with very long capped stigma. Globose or oblate fruit, 10 to 15 cm in diameter, pale yellow, acidic.

Citrus limetta

Tree or shrub, armed with thick thorns. Leaves 5 to 7.5 cm, elliptic-oval, crenate, narrowly winged petiole. White flowers. Pale yellow, smooth fruit, 5 to 7 cm in diameter, flavourless juice.

Citrus aurantium

Tree up to 6 m high with a round crown, long and flexible thorns. Leaves 7 to 10 cm, sharp to acuminate; petiole broadly winged. Medium sized, white axillary flowers. Fruit 7 to 8 cm in diameter, globose, somewhat flattened at the apex, with 10 to 12 segments; sour flesh.

Cissus verticillata

Climbing plant, glabrous with tendrils; articulated branches. Alternate, simple, oblong to ovate leaves, up to 15 cm, densely pilose to glabrous, with a slightly serrated margin. Pedunculate cymes, yellow, highly ramified; small, green or yellow-green flowers. Ovoid or globose berries, purple to black, 8 to 10 mm, with a single seed.

Cissampelos pareira

Herbaceous climbing plant, pubescent to tomentose. Suborbicular or ovate leaves, 3.5 to 10 cm, rounded to emarginated, often peltate. Staminate inflorescence in corymbs up to 7 cm born in the axils of the leaves; green female flowers in racemes of up to 8 cm. Subglobose drupe (fruit), reddish from 3.5 to 4.5 mm in diameter.

Cinnamomum verum

8-15 m tree, very aromatic bark. Opposite and subopposite leaves, up to 15 cm, markedly trinerved from the base to near the apex, shiny in the beam, hairless, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, rounded at the base. White-yellowish flowers in loose panicles. Fruits of 1.7 cm with a point.

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