Vernacular names
(In territories with significant traditional TRAMIL use)
Haiti:
- asorosi
Honduras:
- calaica
Barbados:
- cerasee
Trinidad and Tobago:
- corailee
- popololo
- sorrow seed
Puerto Rico:
- cundeamor
Dominican Republic:
- cundeamor
Venezuela:
- cundeamor
Dominica:
- kokouli
Antigua and Barbuda:
- maiden blush
Costa Rica:
- sorosí
Guatemala:
- sorosí
Other vernacular names
Haiti:
- Asorosi
- Asorosi/cundeamor
- Asosi
- Yesken
Colombia:
- Balsamina
Honduras:
- Calaica
Barbados:
- Cerasee
Trinidad and Tobago:
- Corailee = sorrow seed = popololo
Dominican Republic:
- Cuandiamor
- Cuendeamor
- Cundeamor
Cuba:
- Cundeamor
Puerto Rico:
- Cundeamor
Dominica:
- Kokouli
- Maiden apple cocouli
- Maiden's apple o pomme cooli
Antigua and Barbuda:
- Maiden Blush
Guadeloupe:
- Paroka
Guatemala:
- Sorosí
Belize:
- Sorosi
Costa Rica:
- Sorosi
Botanical description
Climbing dioecious herb 6 m or more, usually densely branchedwith tendrils. Leaves alternate, simple 4-12 cm long, deeply5-7 lobed,sinuate with mucronate tips; inflorescence a raceme; female and male flowers yellow, peduncle shorter on female flower, bracts on male peduncle reniform to rounded-cordate; fruit cylindrical, narrowed at both ends, 8-15 cm long, prominent tubercles on the ribs, orange when ripe containing pendulous seeds covered in a red pulp; seed oblong 12-16 mm x 5-9 mm and 3-4 mm thick.
Voucher(s)
Faujour,3,BAR
Pimentel,1111,JBSD
García,2329,JBSD
Girón,167,CGEH
Delens,105,VEN
Lagos-Witte,7,HPMHV
Fonrose,52,SOE
Mejía,s/n,MAPR
Delaigue,19,NHTT
Pharmacopoeia
Ed.2References
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