Taxon: Clusia rosea Jacq.

Common names:

• autographtree   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• balsam-apple   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• pitch apple   (Source: L West Indies ) – English
  
• Scotch-attorney   (Source: Zander Ency [but this adjective is best avoided, may cause offence in Scotland]) – English
  
• rosafarbener Balsamapfel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• copey   (Source: L West Indies ) – Spanish
  
• cupey   (Source: L West Indies ) – Spanish
  
• narrfikus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F. Starr et al. 2003)
  
• Weed   (fide F. Starr et al. 2003)
  

More:

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Aruba; Bahamas; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador - Los Rios [but identity of single specimen is tentative]

• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Bahia, Pernambuco

• also cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. [= C. major L.].
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Howard, R. A. 1962. Some Guttiferae of the Lesser Antilles. J. Arnold Arbor. 43:393–394.
• Howard, R. A. 1973. The Enumeratio and Selectarum of Nicolaus von Jacquin. J. Arnold Arbor. 54:435–470.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Standley, P. C. 1920. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 23:1-1721.
• Starr, F. et al. 2003. Clusea rosea. http://166.122.60.44/Pier/pdf/pohreports/clusia_rosea.pdf.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. [= C. major L.].
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

More:

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Clusia rosea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Clusia rosea.

Synonyms:

• (=) Clusia major auct. nonn.
  

Check other web resources for Clusia rosea Jacq.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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