Eugenia biflora

Botanical Description

Eugenia biflora is a much-branched evergreen shrub or a small tree with a dense, bushy crown; it can grow up to 9 metres tall with a trunk up to 20cm in diameter[ 448 Title Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Second Volume. Publication Author Little E.L.; Woodbury R.O.;Wadsworth F.H. Publisher USDA, Forest Service; Washington. Year 1974 ISBN Description Contains detailed information, and usually an illustration, on 500 tree species, including both native and exotic species. , 1438 Title Food Plants in the Americas: A Survey of the Domesticated, Cultivated, and Wild Plants Used for Human Food in North, Publication Author Kermath B.M.; Bennett B.C.' Pulsipher L.M. Publisher Year 2014 ISBN Description A pre-publication draft of an amazing, on-going work first started in 1985. It contains information on more than 3,900 taxa from the Americas - from Arctic regions to the Tropics ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental[ 2115 Title Dictionary of Trees; Volume 2 South America; Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology Publication Author Grandtner M.M. & Chevrette J. Publisher Academic Press; London Year 2014 ISBN 978-0-12-396490-8 Description ]. Eugenia biflora has a very wide distribution, large population, is not currently experiencing any major threats and no significant future threats have been identified. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2019)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].