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Tahitian gooseberry tree
Plate 1 of 5. (c) Dr. Nasser Halaweh, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Dr. Nasser Halaweh · via iNaturalist

Tahitian gooseberry tree

Phyllanthus acidus

Phyllanthus acidus, known as the Otaheite gooseberry, Malay gooseberry, Tahitian gooseberry, Country gooseberry, Star gooseberry, Starberry, West India gooseberry, or simply Gooseberry tree, is one of the trees with edible small yellow berries fruit in the Phyllanthaceae family. Despite its name, the plant does not resemble the gooseberry, except for the acidity of its fruits. It is mostly cultivated for ornamentation.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 166746.