Flueggea leucopyrus, Flueggea microcarpa.
Botanical name:
Flueggea leucopyrus Willd. Euphorbiaceae.
East Indies. The small, round, whitish-colored fruit is a little bitter to the taste but is eaten in India by the poor.
Flueggea microcarpa Blume.
Old World tropics. The fruit, a white, globose, dehiscent berry, one-sixth inch in diameter, is eaten. The berries are eaten by the natives of eastern tropical Africa.
Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.
