Taxon: Genipa americana L.

Common names:

• genip   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• genipap   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• marmalade-box   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• confiture de singe   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• génipa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• caruto   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• genipa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• huito   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• irayol   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• yagua   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• genipa   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: potential as beverage base   (fide CoopAmaz 44:155-156.)
  
• Human food: potential as fruit   (fide CoopAmaz 44:155-156.)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide F Guat, as G. caruto; Trees Bolivia)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Paraguay

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Philippines
• cultivated in neotropics

References:

• 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).
• Andersson, L. 1992. A provisional checklist of neotropical Rubiaceae. Scripta Botanica 1.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. [introduced].
• Boggan, J. et al. 1992. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fournet, J. 1978. Flore illustree des phanerogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Killeen, T. J. et al. 1993. Guia de arboles de Bolivia.
• Lasser, T., ed. 1964–. Flora de Venezuela.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. 139.
• Villachica, H. 1996. Frutales y hortalizas promisorios de la amazonia. In: Secretaria Pro-Tempore, Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. 44:151–156.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Genipa americana var. caruto (Kunth) Schumach.
  
• (=) Genipa caruto Kunth
  

Check other web resources for Genipa americana L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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