Pouteria glomerata

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| image_caption = Pouteria glomerata subsp. glomerata

| genus = Pouteria

| species = glomerata

| authority = (Miq.) Radlk.

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Pouteria glomerata is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is distributed from Mexico to North-East Argentina. Its greatest presence is in Brazil, where it is known as abiurana-do-igapó (wetland abiurana).{{cite book |last1=Grandtner |first1=MM |last2=Chevrette |first2=Julien |title=Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology |date=2013 |publisher=Academic Press}} Mature fruit has a smooth and yellow pericarp, with four ovary locules. The subspecies Pouteria glomerata subsp. stylosa is endemic to the Amazon Basin, where it is called abiurana-roxa (purple abiurana).{{cite web |last1=Alves-Araújo |first1=A |title=Pouteria in Flora do Brasil 2020 |url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/floradobrasil/FB21015 |publisher=Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro}} The subspecies Pouteria glomerata subsp. glomerata, formerly known as Pouteria hypoglauca, is native to Central America, and an edible fruit (called cinnamon apple), grown in Florida.{{Cite book |last=Boning |first=Charles R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0wgEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53&dq=cinnamon+apple+pouteria&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO2ZXO-vqJAxXhExAIHZfMDqAQ6AF6BAgMEAI#v=onepage&q=cinnamon%20apple%20pouteria&f=false |title=Florida's Best Fruiting Plants: Native and Exotic Trees, Shrubs, and Vines |date=2021-06-01 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-68334-275-5 |pages=53 |language=en}}

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