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Myristica fragrans : ウィキペディア英語版 | Myristica fragrans
''Myristica fragrans'' is an evergreen tree indigenous to the Moluccas (or Spice Islands) of Indonesia. It is important as the main source of the spices nutmeg and mace.〔 It is widely grown across the tropics including Guangdong and Yunnan in China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Grenada in the Caribbean, Kerala in India, Sri Lanka and South America.〔〔 ==Description==
''Myristica fragrans'' is a small evergreen tree, usually tall, but occasionally reaching . The alternately arranged leaves are dark green, long by wide with petioles about long. The species is dioecious, i.e. "male" or staminate flowers and "female" or carpellate flowers are borne on different plants, although occasional individuals produce both kinds of flower. The flowers are bell-shaped, pale yellow and somewhat waxy and fleshy. Staminate flowers are arranged in groups of one to ten, each long; carpellate flowers are in smaller groups, one to three, and somewhat longer, up to long.〔 Carpellate trees produce smooth yellow ovoid or pear-shaped fruits, long with a diameter of . The fruit has a fleshy husk. When ripe the husk splits into two halves along a ridge running the length of the fruit. Inside is a purple-brown shiny seed, long by about across, with a red or crimson covering (an aril). The seed is the source of nutmeg, the aril the source of mace.〔〔
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