Lucuma bifera (synonym Pouteria lucuma) is a species of tree in the family Sapotaceae cultivated for its fruit, the lúcuma. It is native to the Andean valleys of South America.
Description
This evergreen tree is up to 20 metres (66 feet) tall and has grayish-brown, fissured bark, which produces a milky white exudate. The end of branchlets and the petioles are covered with short, brown hairs. The leaves are simple, oblanceolate to elliptical, up to 25 centimetres (10 inches) long and 10 cm (4 in) wide, and glabrous (or sometimes slightly hairy on the underside) grouped at the end of the branches.
The flowers are solitary or in fascicles, small, axillary, with hairy sepals and a corolla forming a tube
