Jamaican Cherry
Other Common Names


Cook Islands: venevene;

Cuba: capulinas, guácima boba, guácima cereza, guasimilla, memiso;

Ecuador: comida paloma;

El Salvador: capulín de comer;

French Polynesia: cerise;

Guam: mansanita, manzanilla, manzanita;

Guatemala: capulín blanco;

Haiti: bois de soie, bois de soie marron, bois d'orme;

India: bird's cherry, gasagase hannina mara, nakkaraegu, paanchara, Singapore cherry, ten pazham;

Indonesia: cerri, kersen; Malay cherry, talok;

Jamaica: strawberry tree; Laos: khoom sôm, khoom somz;

Malaysia: Japanese cherry, kerukup siam;

Maldives: jaam;

Mexico: bersilana, bisilana, cacanicua, capolín, capulin, capulín de mayo, capulín manso, capulín real, capulincillo, carecillo, cerezo, guinda, huztlán, huztlán, jonote, juanito, nigua, palmán, poan, puam, puan, puan capulín, puyam, puyán, teresita;

Micronesia, Federated states of: terri;

Myanmar: hnget thagya, hnget-tangya;

Nicaragua: capulín negro;

Panama: pacito, pasito, periquito;

Peru: bolaina, bolina yamanza, guinda yunanasa, iumanasa, mullacahuayo, mullaca-huayo, yumanaza;

Philippines: aratiles, cereza, datiles, latires, ratiles, seresa, zanitas;

Singapore: buah cheri;

Sri Lanka: jam fruit, jam tree;

Thailand: krop farang, ta kob farang, takhop farang;

Venezuela: cedrillo, guácimo hembra, mahaujo, majaguillo, niguo;

Vietnam: mat sam, trung ca

Bibliography

Areces-Berazain, Fabiola. "Muntingia calabura (Jamaica cherry)." Herbarium UPRRP, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, In: 2022 Invasive Species Compendium, Wallingford, UK: CAB International, 10 Oct. 2016, CABI, www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/35164. Accessed 11 Nov. 2022.

Published 13 Apr. 2025 LR
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