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Semialarium mexicanum (Miers) Mennega (Hemiangium excelsum (Kunth) A.C. Smith, Hippocratea excelsa Kunth); chum look

Tree; leaves short-petioled, leathery; fruits shaped like a shallow 3-lobed bowl, each lobe with a teminal notch. Image at left photographed at CICY Botanical Garden, Merida.

Additional image:

• leaves
• leaves
• leaves and flower (photographed near San Anselmo)
• stem apex
• flower (photographed near San Anselmo)
• leaves and fruit (photographed at CICY Botanical Garden, Merida)
• leaves and fruit (photographed at CICY Botanical Garden, Merida)
• bark