Lucuma bifera Molina
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Lucuma bifera (synonym Pouteria lucuma) is a species of tree in the family Sapotaceae cultivated for its fruit, the lúcuma. It is native to the Andean valleys of South America.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Lucuma bifera", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 2884075 (Lucuma bifera Molina, 1 record). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
Photographs
Photographs: juan francisco gonzaléz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Names & registers
Also known as Achras lucuma; Lucuma turbinata; Pouteria lucuma; Richardella lucuma; Lucuma obovata and 3 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Lucuma bifera Molina (plant_name_id 115302), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record of GBIF's key 2884075, Lucuma bifera Molina (Kew's file holds it as Lucuma bifera Molina (accepted)): the GBIF downloadclimate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the rangewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 787229-1, POWO 787229-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.