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Please ID unknown flowering tree
« on: November 08, 2017, 05:43:43 PM »
This is on a neighbor's property, first time blooming.









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Re: Please ID unknown flowering tree
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2017, 09:21:37 PM »
Theobroma cacao?

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Re: Please ID unknown flowering tree
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2017, 10:05:10 PM »
The leaves look like Cacau, but that white flower is not.

The tree also looks like Sunsa / Sunsapote, but I am not familiar with that tree's flower.  ______ platypus.
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Re: Please ID unknown flowering tree
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2017, 06:57:02 AM »
Thanks for the input. I was told cacao, but the flower position isn't right.
This what I found for Sun Sapote flowers, and it is close but not exact.
http://tropical.theferns.info/image.php?id=Licania+platypus

Maybe someone else knows.
Steve Curcura is familiar with the property and I will ask him.

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Re: Please ID unknown flowering tree
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2018, 05:12:55 PM »
Were you able to find the ID of this plant?

I think it might be Quararibea funebris! (If I am correctly identifying it from the flower.)
It's a South American native with a really fragrant flower that is used as a spice to flavor a corn-cacao drink.

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Re: Please ID unknown flowering tree
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2018, 05:44:46 PM »
Were you able to find the ID of this plant?

I think it might be Quararibea funebris! (If I am correctly identifying it from the flower.)
It's a South American native with a really fragrant flower that is used as a spice to flavor a corn-cacao drink.

I think you are correct. The photos here of the flower match exactly, leaves match exactly and the branching of four branches at one point along the leader is exactly the same. The closest name the owner had was xxxx something-cacao, which matches with the common Mexican names  Rosita de Cacao, Cacao Flower, Flor de Cacao, Madre Cacao

https://toptropicals.com/html/toptropicals/plant_wk/quararibea.htm

Thank you very much. None of the flowers set fruit, and the tree is a singular curiosity in the owner's collection. I did bring it some good compost and mulch but the owner isn't giving it any special care.

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Re: Please ID unknown flowering tree
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2018, 05:57:35 PM »
  :) Ah no problem...I'm happy I could help.

Yes, that's the common names. Is it still flowering? It is just the first flowering and still young, so hopefully it will set fruit the next season. The owner may look at it differently now that he knows he has a very special tree, one that he can use to make "Tejate" or the "Drink of the Gods!"

All the best..:)

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Re: Please ID unknown flowering tree
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2018, 09:48:26 PM »
Certainly rosita de cacao. I wonder how and why that tree is there. I grow rosita because I use the flowers to flavor chocolate. I think this tree is very rare outside of Oaxaca. I don’t think the fruit has any value.

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Re: Please ID unknown flowering tree
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2019, 02:07:05 PM »
I should have a bunch of rosita de cacao (Quararibea funebris) seedlings available for purchase/trade locally (South Florida) in about a month.

Jaime