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Spondias mombin Jacq.

Creole Plum; Plum Bush; Yellow Mombin

Other names

International recognized trade name (ATIBT)
Deutsch Gelbe Mombinpflaume
English Creole Plum; Plum Bush; Yellow Mombin
Français Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Italiano Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Suomi Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Norsk Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Čeština Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Español Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Svenska Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Polski Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Український Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Român Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Русский Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Български Gelbe Mombinpflaume
EESTI Gelbe Mombinpflaume
日本語 Gelbe Mombinpflaume
Other names jobo, jobo macho, hobo colorado (CO); ubos, cedrillo, itahuba (BO); ajuelo (EC); shungu, ushun (PE); jobo corronchoso, ciruelo de hueso, coropa (VE); jobito (CO); jocote (CR); pok (BZ); monbô­n (HO)

Further information

Intkey
COL
Wikipedia
FSC
Xylotheque

Origin

Geographic Regions Central America
States and Territories St. Kitts; Virgin Isl. (Guana, Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda); Jamaica; Nicaragua; Java [I]; Bonaire; St. Eustatius; Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Arauca, Bolívar, Caldas, Caquetá, Chocó, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Guaviare, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Norte de Santander, San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle, Vichada); Montserrat; Cayman Isl.; Saba; peninsular Malaysia [I]; tropical Africa [I]; Angola [I]; Honduras; Thailand [I]; Guinea [I]; Curaçao; Bioko Isl. [Fernando Poo] [I]; Guinea-Bissau [I]; New Caledonia [I]; Anguilla; Hispaniola; St. Vincent; São Tomé [I]; Vietnam [I]; Antigua; Barbados; Cuba; Ecuador; Costa Rica; Grenadines; Sudan [I]; Chad [I]; Marie-Galante; Cape Verde Isl. [I] (Santo Antao Isl. [I], Ilha de Sao Tiago [I], Fogo Isl. [I]); French Guiana; South Sudan [I]; Grenada; Martinique; Venezuela (Amazonas, Anzoategui, Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Guarico, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Tachira); Sumatra [I]; El Salvador; Tobago; Panama; Benin [I]; Peru; Belize; Congo [Brazzaville] [I]; Sri Lanka [I]; NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Piauí, Ceara, Pernambuco, Bahia, Alagoas); Gabon [I]; Philippines [I]; Trinidad; Surinam; Aruba; Togo [I]; Guatemala; Puerto Rico; Isla Margarita; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan); Guyana; Annobon Isl. [I]; Principe Isl. [I]; Cameroon [I]; Central African Republic [I]; WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso); Bolivia (Beni, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz); Guadeloupe; Burkina Faso [I]; Saint Lucia; N-Brazil (Roraima, Pará, Amazonas, Tocantins, Acre)
[I] = Introduced

Botany

Reich Plantae
Tribe Tracheophyta
Gymnosperm Angiosperm
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Sapindales
Family Anacardiaceae
Genus Spondias
Species mombin
Author citation Jacq.
Scientific name Spondias mombin Jacq.

Habitus

Wood type Hardwood
Growth habit Baum

Microscopic features

Containers zerstreutporig
Intkey https://www.delta-intkey.com/wood/de/www/anaspmom.htm

Macroscopic features

Wood odor Kein ausgeprägter Geruch
Growth ring boundaries indistinct or not recognizable
Heartwood without color stripes
Strip in the heartwood Ohne Farbstreifen
Color heartwood hell

Natural durability
(according to EN 350)

Mushrooms field DC

Raw density oven-dried u =12%
(e.g. according to EN 350)

Density, oven dry u =12%, lower limit 0.3-0.55 kg/m3

Appearances

Wood

Creole Plum;  Plum Bush;  Yellow Mombin

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Creole Plum;  Plum Bush;  Yellow Mombin

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Bark

Creole Plum;  Plum Bush;  Yellow Mombin

, Bark , ©Dennis Wilson

Creole Plum;  Plum Bush;  Yellow Mombin

, Bark , ©Dennis Wilson