EPPO Global Database

Malpighia glabra(MLPGL)

Overview
Code created in: 2000-07-01

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: MLPGL
  • Preferred name: Malpighia glabra
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

USA (Texas), Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America (northwest). Cultivated as a fruit tree. Introduced in Bangladesh, Indochina (Vietnam) 


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Malpighia punicifolia Linnaeus

Common names
Name Language
Barbados cherry English
Barbados-Kirschbaum German
cereza de Barbados Spanish (CU)
escobillo Spanish
barbadoskers Dutch