Nancite:
Common names :
English: golden spoon, nance bark, savanna serette;
Spanish: indano, nance, nance blanco, nanche, nancite, nancito, chaparro, chaparro de chinche, chaparro de sabana, chaparro peralejo, chaparro manteco, manteco, manteco sabanero, manero, crabo, marushi, maricas, maricao cimarrón, cimarrón, paralejo, peralejo blanco, peralija, changugo, tapal, yoco;
Portugese: murici, muruci do campo, muruci da praia crabo, cangica;
French: maurissi, moureiller des Caraïbes, moureiller des savanes, morissi.
The fruit is a globose drupe, 1-2 cm ; mesocarp yellow, sweet and sour ; 1-3 seeds in a woody yellow endocarp.
Uses :
Consumed raw or salted, in juice, sherbets, candies, in fermented drinks (Panama) or macerated in alcohol. Also consumed with cassava flour, soups and meat preparations. Garden ornamental in Central America and Florida. The juice from the green fruit turns black following oxidization and is used as a dye. A similar brown dye, made from the fruits and the bark, is used in Guatemala for cotton clothes.
2006-10-07 16:01:34
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