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Flowers of Zihuatanejo

Cudjoewood

Bonellia macrocarpa

-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)

-Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies (Order Ericales)

-Primroses (Family Primulaceae)

-Subfamily Theophrastoideae

-Tribe Theophrasteae

-Genus Bonellia

-Cudjoewood (Bonellia macrocarpa)


Cudjoewood (Bonellia macrocarpa), is a robust evergreen shrub or small tree native to Mexico. he plant produces clusters of small, fragrant, orange-red flowers that are unique for having five true petals alternating with five petal-like sterile stamens. These blooms are followed by greenish to orange berries about 3 to 4 centimetres in diameter, which have a wrinkled outer skin when mature and are often consumed by birds but are not edible for humans.

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