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Muntingia calabura

Jamaica cherry

Introduced to HawaiʻiIUCN: least concern

Photo: (c) Jorge Armín Escalante-Pasos, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jorge Armín Escalante-Pasos (iNaturalist)

83

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1927

First collected

2017

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Muntingia calabura, most mentions first.

  1. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2025

  3. 2022

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2022: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

16 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1920s2010s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1927 by Gillespie, J.W. (Viti Levu).

From the collection

Muntingia calabura, 81677Muntingia calabura, 571961Muntingia calabura, 588936Muntingia calabura, 48289Muntingia calabura, 503012Muntingia calabura, 48290Muntingia calabura, 184677Muntingia calabura, 48284Muntingia calabura, 581941Muntingia calabura, 438349Muntingia calabura, 48287Muntingia calabura, 782998

Alive today

4 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.