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Rivina humilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Petiveriaceae.It was formerly placed in the pokeweed family, Phytolaccaceae. [2] It can be found in the southern United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and tropical South America.
Amelanchier × spicata, also referred to as the low juneberry, [1] thicket shadbush, dwarf serviceberry, or low serviceberry (historically also called "pigeon berry" [2]), is a hybrid of Amelanchier alnifolia × Amelanchier humilis. that has edible fruit, which are really pomes. They can be eaten raw or cooked.
Phytolacca americana, also known as American pokeweed, pokeweed, poke sallet, pokeberry, dragonberries, pigeonberry weed, and inkberry, is a poisonous, herbaceous perennial plant in the pokeweed family Phytolaccaceae. This pokeweed grows 1 to 3 metres (4 to 10 ft). [4] It has simple leaves on green to red or purplish stems and a large white ...
Historically, it was also called pigeon berry. [ 19 ] "Service berry" appears to be a name applied by European immigrants who found it similar in appearance to the European "service tree" plants of genus Sorbus and Cormus .
Pigeonberry or pigeon berry is a common name for several flowering plants and may refer to: Amelanchier alnifolia, native to North America; Duranta erecta;
Duranta erecta is a species of flowering shrub in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native from Mexico to South America and the Caribbean.It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical gardens throughout the world, and has become naturalized in many places.
The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
Petiveria is a genus of flowering plants in the pigeonberry family, Petiveriaceae. The sole species it contains, Petiveria alliacea, [3] is native to Florida and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States, [4] Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and tropical South America. [2] Introduced populations occur in Benin and Nigeria ...