How to identify Aguai
Identify Aguai by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Confirm leaf shape: Elliptic (widest at middle).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm it sits within the Sapotaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Aguai.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Pouteria gardneriana
- Genus
- Pouteria
- Family
- Sapotaceae
- Habit
- Tree
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Elliptic (widest at middle)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Aguai itself; the rest are typical of the Sapotaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Sapotaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Aguai
Aguai (Pouteria gardneriana) belongs to the Sapotaceae family, where it grows as a tree.
Sapotaceae
Sapodilla/Chicle family
Aguai belongs to the Sapotaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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