Lucuma multiflora

{{Short description|Species of tree}}

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|status = VU

|status_system = IUCN2.3

|status_ref = Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. Pouteria macrocarpa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T34407A9864484. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T34407A9864484.en. Accessed 14 April 2025.

|genus = Lucuma

|species = multiflora

|authority = A.DC.

|synonyms={{collapsible list|bullets=true

|title=Synonymy

|Achras acana {{small|Sessé & Moc.}}

|Lucuma dussiana {{small|Pierre ex Duss}}

|Lucuma macrocarpa {{small|Huber}}

|Lucuma martinicensis {{small|Pierre}}

|Lucuma multiflora var. urbanii {{small|(Pierre) Dubard}}

|Lucuma quadrifida {{small|Pierre}}

|Lucuma stahliana {{small|Pierre}}

|Lucuma urbanii {{small|Pierre}}

|Pouteria carabobensis {{small|Pittier}}

|Pouteria dussiana {{small|(Pierre ex Duss) Stehlé}}

|Pouteria huberiana {{small|Rizzini}}

|Pouteria macrocarpa {{small|(Huber) Ducke}}

|Pouteria martinicensis {{small|(Pierre) Stehlé}}

|Pouteria medicata {{small|García-Barr.}}

|Pouteria multiflora {{small|(A.DC.) Eyma}}

|Pouteria multiflora var. quadrifida {{small|(Pierre) Baehni}}

|Pouteria multiflora var. urbanii {{small|(Pierre) Baehni}}

|Pouteria multiflora var. tipica {{small|(A. DC.) Baehni, not validly publ.}}

|Pouteria officinalis {{small|García-Barr.}}

|Radlkoferella dussiana {{small|Pierre}}

|Radlkoferella guadelupensis {{small|Pierre}}

|Radlkoferella latifolia {{small|Fawc.}}

|Radlkoferella macrocarpa {{small|(Huber) Aubrév.}}

|Radlkoferella martinicensis {{small|Pierre}}

|Radlkoferella multiflora {{small|(A.DC.) Pierre}}

|Radlkoferella quadrifida {{small|Pierre}}

|Radlkoferella urbanii {{small|Pierre}}

|Sapota latifolia (Fawc.) {{small|Kuntze}}

|Vitellaria multiflora (A.DC.) {{small|Radlk.}}

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|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Lucuma multiflora A.DC. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:787334-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=8 April 2025}}

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Lucuma multiflora is a plant in the family Sapotaceae of the order Ericales. Its English common name is bullytree. Its Spanish common names include jácana,[http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/pubs/sm_iitf062%20%20(5).pdf Pouteria multiflora A.DC. Eyma: Sapotaceae - Sapodilla family.] John A. Parrotta and John K. Francis. USDA. Forest Service. Publication Number: SO-ITF-SM-62. August 1993. Retrieved 12 September 2013. ácana, acana, hacana, or jacana. It is native to North and South America.{{Cite book|url=|title=Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology|last1=Grandtner|first1=M. M.|last2=Chevrette|first2=Julien|date=2013|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=9780123969545|location=|pages=527|language=en}}[http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=pomu6 Pouteria multiflora (A. DC.) Eyma; bullytree.] USDA. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Plants Database. Retrieved 12 September 2013. The plant is common in the Toro Negro State Forest.[http://www.drna.gobierno.pr/biblioteca/publicaciones/hojas-de-nuestro-ambiente/30-Toro%20Negro%20ultimo.pdf Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807061645/http://www.drna.gobierno.pr/biblioteca/publicaciones/hojas-de-nuestro-ambiente/30-Toro%20Negro%20ultimo.pdf |date=2015-08-07 }} Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. [Publication/Issue: P-030] Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. (in Spanish) Retrieved 12 September 2013.

It can grow from {{convert|40–90|feet}} high and from {{convert|2–3|feet}} in diameter. It yields very good timber that can be used for mill rollers, frames, furniture, and house building. Acana wood is light colored, fine and straight grained, hard, very heavy, strong, durable, and can be polished to shine. The pores are small and arranged in radial rows. Pith rays narrow and indistinct.{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture|url=https://archive.org/details/bulletinusdepar00agrigoog|year=1917|publisher=Department of Agriculture|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bulletinusdepar00agrigoog/page/n10 4]–}}

A similar definition of the Acana tree is given by Constantino Suarez in his Diccionario de voces Cubanas as; wild indigenous tree with a straight trunk that grows to 10 meters with coriaceous rigid oval leaves which produces a nutritious fruit smaller than the zapote, and whose wood is valued in Cuba for rustic houses and ship building because of the wood's durability and hardness, qualities enhanced by its sonority, weight, and beautiful reddish color.{{cite book|author=Gustavo Pérez Firmat|title=The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/cubanconditiontr0000pere|url-access=registration|date=June 15, 1989|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-32747-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cubanconditiontr0000pere/page/107 107]–}}