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{{Species page (seed plant)
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|author = DC.|order = Malpighiales|family = Malpighiaceae|genus = Malpighia|nb chromosomes = 2n = 40|origin = area of originMesoamerica, northeastern South America|status = wild or and cultivated|english = acerola|french = acérola}} ''To edit this page, please copy the French version and translate it. If it contains no data, the first tasks are to check all the links, to clarify nomenclature and to upload photos from Wikimedia Commons'' {{Box
|title = Uses summary
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|text =* edible fruit* planted in hedges
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== Description ==
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File:Starr-121108-1132-Malpighia emarginata-habit-Pali o Waipio-Maui (25196868305).jpg|arbre
File:Starr 070906-8593 Malpighia emarginata.jpg|feuillage
File:Starr-090813-4194-Malpighia emarginata-flowers-Kahului-Maui (24853488252).jpg|fleur
File:West indian cherry.JPG|fruits
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* 2 to 5 m high shrub, very branched and bushy, spreading or hanging branches becoming spiniform
* opposite simple and whole leaves, with a 2 to 4 mm long petiole; elliptical limb, oblong or obovate-oblong, 2 to 7 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide, obtuse at the acute apex or obtuse at the base, the young leaves are covered with fine hairs and rapidly become glabrous, adult leaves are dark green, shiny with prominent ribs on top, and lighter green below
* inflorescences in corymbs or in axillary or terminal umbels, pauciflora (1 to 6), briefly pedonculate or sessile
* hermaphrodite flowers with 6 to 15 mm long pedicels, glandular calyx with 5 persistent 2.5 to 3 mm sepals, 4 pink or slightly purplish petals, suborbicular or broadly elliptical with arrow-shaped base, the fifth petal in fan-shaped with a cuneiform base, 10 fertile stamens
* fruit: very slightly ribbed, ovoid or subglobose drupe, 1 to 2 cm in diameter, red or vermilion, shiny, smooth; 3 nested nuclei, flattened on their common sides with 2 longitudinal ridges and furrowed transversely on the dorsal face in a soft, juicy pulp.
Requirements : Not very demanding for the soil, but gives better results in slightly clayey but well drained soils. An annual rainfall of 1700 to 2000 mm seems to be optimal.
== Popular names ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
| English | acerola, West Indian cherry, Barbados cherry ; Barbados cherry, garden cherry, sloe berry (Ant), West-Indian cherry (Fouqué)|-| French| cerisier carré, cerisier des Antilles, moureiller des jardins, acerolier / cerise carrée, cerise des Antilles, acérola ; acérolier, cerisier des Antilles, loureiller des jardins, loureiller lisse (Fouqué)|-| Guyanese Creole | cerise [siriz], cerise de Cayenne [siriz-Kayenn], cerise la côte [siriz-lakot] (Pharma. Guyane)|-| German| Westindische Kirsche, Barbados-Kirsche|-| Dutch| geribde kers|-| Spanish| acerola (Porto Rico), semeruco (Venezuela) ; cereza de Barbados ; acerola (PR), cereza de Barbados (Esp, AmL), cereza colorada (PR), cerezo (AmL), cemeruco (Vén), grosello (Pan), nanche (Mex), palo de piedra (Nic), semeruco (Vén), uste (Mex) (Fouqué)|-| Portuguese | acerola, gingeira da Jamaica, cereja do Pará, cereja das Antilhas|-| Thaï| choeri (Bangkok) (PROSEA)|-| Vietnamese | so'ri (PROSEA)
|}
== Classification ==
''Malpighia emarginata'' DC. (1824)
== Cultivars ==
== History ==
<gallery mode="packed">File:Curtis's botanical magazine (No. 813) (8470988008).jpg|''Curtis's botanical magazine'', 1805, vol. 21-22, pl. 813File:Malpighia glabra Paxton 041.jpg|''Paxton's Flower Garden'', 1853, vol. 2, pl. 41</gallery>Origin : Probably West Indies and northwestern South America in Panama.
== Uses ==
{{Citation box|text="La pulpe, d'agréable saveur aigrelette, est consommée crue, sous forme de confitures, gelées, etc. Très périssable, le fruit doit être utilisé aussitôt après la récolte. C'est le fruit le plus riche en vitamine C. Il contient entre 1000 et 3000 mg d'acide ascorbique pour 100 g de pulpe. Cette teneur en vitamine C diminue avec l'avancement de la maturation."The pulp, with a pleasant sour taste, is eaten raw, in the form of jams, jellies, etc. Highly perishable, the fruit should be used immediately after harvest. It is the richest fruit in vitamin C. It contains between 1000 and 3000 mg of ascorbic acid per 100 g of pulp. This vitamin C content decreases with advancing maturation.|author = (Fouqué, 1972).}}{{Citation encadré|text=In the tropics and subtropics cultivated (e.g. Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Venezuela, Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Canary Isl., Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Zanzibar, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Java, Hawaii, Australia). The fruits are characterized by an unusual high vitamin C content (1-4 g per 100 g juice). They are eaten raw, stewed or candied and are used for making juice, preserves, jam, syrup, jelly, ice-cream, sauces, sherbets and for the extraction of vitamin C. The juice is utilized among others for the improvement of beverages being low on vitamins. Beside this the species is grown as hedge plant.|author =Mansfeld.}}
== References ==
*Chauvet, Michel, 2018. ''[[:fr:Encyclopédie des plantes alimentaires]]''. Paris, Belin. 880 p. (p. 430)*Fouqué, A., 1972. ''Espèces fruitières d'Amérique tropicale''. Paris, Institut français de recherches fruitières outre-mer (IFAC). [[:fr:Malpighiacées (Fouqué)#Malpighia punicifolia|See on Pl@ntUse]].*Grenand, Pierre ; Moretti, Christian ; Jacquemin, Henri & Prévost, Marie-Françoise, 2004. ''Pharmacopées traditionnelles en Guyane. Créoles, Wayãpi, Palikur''. 2e édition revue et complétée. Paris, IRD. 816 p. (1ère éd.: 1987). [[:fr:Malpighia emarginata (Pharmacopées en Guyane)|Voir sur Pl@ntUse]].
== Links ==
*[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search.aspx?SearchTerm=Malpighia%20emarginata&SearchCat= BHL]
*[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Malpighia+emarginata Plant List]
*[http://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Malpighia%20emarginata Plants for a future]
*[[:en:Malpighia emarginata (PROSEA)|PROSEA on Pl@ntUse]]*[[:en:Malpighia emarginata (PROTA)|PROTA on Pl@ntUse]]
*[http://www.prota4u.org/protav8.asp?en=1&p=Malpighia+emarginata Prota4U]
*[http://www.tela-botanica.org/page:eflore_bdtfx?referentiel=bdtfx&niveau=2&module=fiche&action=fiche&type_nom=nom_scientifique&nom=Malpighia%20emarginata Tela Botanica]
*[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Malpighia%20emarginata Useful Tropical Plants Database]
*[https://fren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpighia%20emarginata Wikipédia]
*[http://www.wikiphyto.org/wiki/Malpighia%20emarginata Wikiphyto]
[[Category:Malpighia]]