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Acerola is indigenous to the Lesser Antilles from St. Croix to Trinidad, also Curacao and Margarita and neighbouring Central America including Mexico and southern Texas and northern South America as far south as Bahia in Brazil. It has become naturalized in Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico after cultivation, and is commonly grown in house yards in the Bahamas and Bermuda, and to a lesser extent in Central and South America. It is now cultivated globally in the tropics and subtropics in Australia, Brazil, Canary Islands, Cuba, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Ghana, Hawaii, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Madagascar, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar, Venezuela, Vietnam and Zanzibar.
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Lim, T.K. (2012). Malpighia emarginata. In: Edible Medicinal And Non Medicinal Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2534-8_20
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