Panopsis suaveolens green fruit hanging from a tree under blue skies

Panopsis suaveolens


A tree native from Panama to Venezuela, it grows in humid forests, including mountain cloud forests. In Colombia it occurs in the Andes and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and is known as yolombo or uyamo. Its small, fragrant, white to yellowish flowers are borne in racemes at the ends of branches. The rounded fruits have a thick, hard, woody outer wall and turn brown as they mature. Photographed in the department of Antioquia, Colombia.


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