Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_mimusops_elengi
Spanish Cherry
Mimusops elengi
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About Spanish Cherry
Spanish Cherry (Mimusops elengi) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to South and Southeast Asia to northern Australia and the western Pacific in wet tropical forest. A 1980 forestry ledger documents Kauaʻi planting within the 1910–1960 forestry program; no species-specific year is available from the reviewed index; it does not establish current survival, reproduction, or naturalization.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Mimusops elengi
- Common names
- Spanish Cherry · Bullet wood · Bakul
- Other names
- Mimusops elengi · Spanish cherry · Bullet wood · Bakul
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Current survival on Kauaʻi, number of trees, occupied habitat, flowering or fruiting, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects are all unconfirmed; no naturalization or invasive severity is inferred from the historical planting record.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Fragrant bisexual flowers require pollination and develop into fleshy berries whose seeds may be moved by animals. Kauaʻi pollinators, fruit set, dispersal, and recruitment are unknown.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Evergreen tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Spanish Cherry (Mimusops elengi) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to South and Southeast Asia to northern Australia and the western Pacific in wet tropical forest. A 1980 forestry ledger documents Kauaʻi planting within the 1910–1960 forestry program; no species-specific year is available from the reviewed index; it does not establish current survival, reproduction, or naturalization.
Sources and further reading
- https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Mimusops+elengi
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:787999-1/general-information
- https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/47617.pdf
- https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=220008636
- https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=120757