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Bully tree

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2020
Entity authorityQ4997099 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bully tree is a common name for several neotropical trees in the family Sapotaceae and may refer to:

Sideroxylon spp. a few, a genus of flowering plants

Manilkara spp. Manilkara bidentata, Manilkara spectabilis, Manilkara zapota etc., trees

Pouteria multiflora, a tree (also called the broad-leaved lucuma)

Terminalia amazonia, a tree from North South America to Middle America

as bastard bully tree: Pithecellobium lanceolotum, Sideroxylon americanum (Syn.: Bumelia retusa), Sideroxylon salicifolium Mountain, White Bully tree, Sideroxylon portoricense subsp.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 77-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bully, tree and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bully tree” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.