''Malpighia glabra'' is a

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fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...

-bearing shrub or small

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in the family Malpighiaceae. It has often been confused with the cultivated crop tree '' M. emarginata'', but has small insipid fruit and a very different flower structure.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q273742 glabra Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus