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''Lardizabala'' is a
"Lardizabala biternata" en enciclopedia de la flora Chilena
* ttp://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Lardizabala+biternata ''Lardizabala biternata'' Lardizabalaceae Monotypic Ranunculales genera Flora of Chile Garden plants of South America {{fruit-stub
''Lardizabala'' is a monotypic
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genus
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of flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s. These plants are evergreen
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lianas, native to temperate forests of central and southern Chile
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.
The sole species is ''Lardizabala biternata'' Ruiz & Pav, known as ''Coguil, Cogüilera, Coiye, Coille, Voqui cógüil,'' or ''Voqui coille,'' in Chile, and known as Lardizabala or Zabala fruit in English. It is grown for its edible fruits (called ''coguil'' or ''cógüil'' in Mapuche language
Mapuche (, Mapuche & Spanish: , or Mapudungun; from ' 'land' and ' 'speak, speech') is an Araucanian language related to Huilliche spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people (from ''mapu'' 'land' and ''che ...
) and ornamental flowers.
The genus is dedicated to , a Spanish statesman from the 18th century.
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"Lardizabala biternata" en enciclopedia de la flora Chilena
* ttp://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Lardizabala+biternata ''Lardizabala biternata'' Lardizabalaceae Monotypic Ranunculales genera Flora of Chile Garden plants of South America {{fruit-stub