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Kerm<strong>at</strong>h, Bennett and Pulsipher - Food Plants in <strong>the</strong> Americs<br />

REFERENCES: Bailey Hortorium 1976, Facciola 1990<br />

Pyrus calleryana Decne.<br />

FAMILY: Rosaceae (rose)<br />

ENGLISH: Bradford pear, callery pear, flowering pear, red-spire<br />

USES/NOTES: Fruits are edible. Also used as a rootstock and a<br />

landscape specimen despite its tendency to split easily.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: China, n<strong>at</strong>uralized in North America<br />

REFERENCES: Facciola 1990, Neary 1998, Nelson 1994, von Reis Altschul<br />

1973<br />

Pyrus communis L.<br />

FAMILY: Rosaceae (rose)<br />

ENGLISH: pear<br />

PORTUGUESE: pêra, vergamota<br />

SPANISH: pera, peral<br />

USES/NOTES: Cultiv<strong>at</strong>ed for millennia, dessert quality, sweet fruit is<br />

<strong>the</strong> pear <strong>of</strong> commerce.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: Sou<strong>the</strong>astern Europe to southwestern Asia, perhaps <strong>the</strong><br />

Balkans, Greece, or Turkey, n<strong>at</strong>uralized in North America<br />

REFERENCES: Bailey Hortorium 1976, Bourke et al. 1987, Guia Rural<br />

n.d., Usher 1974<br />

Qualea paraensis Ducke [also Q. acumin<strong>at</strong>a Spruce ex Warming, Q.<br />

parviflora Mart.]<br />

FAMILY: Vochysiaceae (vochysia)<br />

PORTUGUESE: mandioqueira, mandioqueira-escamosa, mandioqueiravermelha,<br />

pau-terra (Q. parviflora)<br />

USES/NOTES: Fruit is edible. Also medicinal.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: Amazonia, Q. paraensis from upland forests, Q. acumin<strong>at</strong>a<br />

along w<strong>at</strong>er margins<br />

REFERENCES: Anderson and Posey 1989, Boom 1989, Jardim Botânico de<br />

Brasília 1989, Silva et al. 1977<br />

Quararibea funebris (Llave) Vischer [syn. Q. fieldii Millsp.]<br />

FAMILY: Malvaceae (mallow), previously Bombacaceae (silk-cotton)<br />

SPANISH: canela, molinillo, saha<br />

USES/NOTES: Flowers are used to flavor chocol<strong>at</strong>e beverages, especially<br />

tej<strong>at</strong>e used as a medicinal beverage. Leaves are sold as a spice in<br />

markets <strong>of</strong> Veracruz, Mexico. Flowers contain <strong>the</strong> alkaloids funebral<br />

and funebrine, both similar to drugs used to comb<strong>at</strong> convulsions.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: Lowland tropics <strong>of</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn Mexico and Belize through<br />

Costa Rica<br />

REFERENCES: Ibarra-Manríquez et al. 1997, Mabberley 1987, MBG n.d.,<br />

Uph<strong>of</strong> 1968, West 1992<br />

Quararibea wittii Schumann & Ulbr.<br />

FAMILY: Malvaceae (mallow), previously Bombacaceae (silk-cotton)<br />

SPANISH: bara muyo, chucula caspi, nenepekago, nenepekawe, sapotillo,<br />

yurac saputi<br />

DRAFT - DO NOT DUPLICATE OR DISTRIBUTE<br />

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