Flacourtia indica

Common Name: governor's plum

Family: Salicaceae

Common Synonyms: none

USDA Hardiness Zone: NA

Growth Habit: Shrub or Tree

Origin: Southeast Africa, India, Southern Asia, and the Phillipines

FISC Category: 2

FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No

Introduction Date: 1924

IFAS Assessment:

• North: OK
• Central: CAUTION
• South: CAUTION

Description

Evergreen shrub or tree to 10 m tall with sharp spines in the leaf axils and on trunk. Leaves alternate, simple, leathery, to 8 cm long, shape variable, margins toothed to wavy, glabrous or pubescent. Plants dioecious, flowers small and yellowish in small clusters in the leaf axils. Fruit a round edible berry to 2 cm, red to purple when ripe.

Habitat

Rockland hammock, maritime hammock, pine rockland, scrub, disturbed sites

Comments

NA

Control Methods

• Manual: NA
• Chemical: Cut-stem (10% glyphosate, Kuefffer and Mauremootoo)
• Biological: NA

Control Notes

NA

References

Kueffer, C. and J. Mauremootoo, J. 2004. Case studies on the status of invasive woody plant species in the Western Indian Ocean3. Mauritius (Islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues). Working Paper FBS/4-3E: FAO of the United Nations Forestry Department, Rome.

Langeland, K.A., H.M. Cherry, C.M. McCormick, K.C. Burks. 2008. Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas-Second Edition. IFAS Publication SP 257. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.