Cordia

Cordia
	; Cordia boisseri in bloom
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae;
(unranked):	Angiosperms;
(unranked):	Eudicots;
(unranked):	Asterids;
Order:	(unplaced);
Family:	Boraginaceae;
Subfamily:	Cordioideae;
Genus:	Cordia; L.
Species
	See text

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For the automobile, see Mitsubishi Cordia.

A jar of Taiwanese Cordia dichotoma fruits with ginger

Cordia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the borage family, Boraginaceae. About 300 species have been identified worldwide, mostly in warmer regions. Many of the species are commonly called manjack.

Many Cordias have fragrant showy flowers and are popular in gardens, although they are not especially hardy. Like most other Boraginaceae, most have hairy leaves.

Cordia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita malabaricus and two bucculatricid leaf-miners recorded solely from Cordia: Bucculatrix caribbea and Bucculatrix cordiaella.

A number of the tropical species have edible fruits, known by a wide variety of names including clammy cherries, glue berries, sebesten, or snotty gobbles. In India, the fruits of local species are used as a vegetable, raw, cooked, or pickled, and are known by many names, including lasora in Hindi. One such species is Cordia dichotoma (fragrant manjack), which is called gunda in Hindi and lasura in Nepali. The fruit of the fragrant manjack is called phoà-pò·-chí (破布子), 樹子仔, or 樹子 in Taiwan where they are eaten pickled.

Bocote is a Spanish name used in Central America for several species of Cordia.

[edit] Selected species

Cordia abyssinica
Cordia africana
Cordia africana - white manjack
Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken - Spanish Elm, Ecuador Laurel, Salmwood, Bocote (South America)
Cordia angustifolia - Basora
Cordia bahamensis - Bahama manjack
Cordia bellonis - serpentine manjack
Cordia boissieri A.DC. - Anacahuita, Texas Olive (southern Texas, Northern Mexico)
Cordia borinquensis - capá, muneco
Cordia buddeloides
Cordia collococca - red manjack
Cordia crenata
Cordia croatii
Cordia curassavica - black sage, wild sage
Cordia dentata - white manjack
Cordia dichotoma G.Forst - Fragrant manjack, bird lime tree [1]
Cordia dodecandra - ziricote
Cordia eleagnoides
Cordia gerascanthus - yauco, Spanish elm, laurel negro, baria
Cordia globosa - bloodberry, butterfly sage, curaciao bush
Cordia guanacastensis
Cordia holstii
Cordia kingstonia
Cordia laevigata - smooth manjack
Cordia lima - lija

Cordia linnaei
Cordia lutea
Cordia macleodii
Cordia martinicensis
Cordia millenii
Cordia myxa L. - Assyrian plum (South Asia)
Cordia nesophila
Cordia nitida - red manjack, Indian cherry
Cordia nodosa
Cordia obliqua - clammy cherry
Cordia panamensis L.Riley (Southern Mexico, Central America, northern South America)^[2]
Cordia parvifolia - small-leaf geigertree
Cordia podocephala - Texas manjack
Cordia polycephala - black-sage
Cordia reticulata
Cordia rickseckeri - orange manjack, San Bartolome
- Cordia rickseckeri Millsp. - black manjack
Cordia rupicola Urban - Puerto Rico manjack, cliff manjack
Cordia sebestena L. - Geiger tree, large-leaf geigertree (southern Florida, Greater Antilles, Central America)
Cordia subcordata Lam. - Kou, Tou, Marer (Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, Pacific Islands)
Cordia sulcata - mucilage manjack, laylay, white manjack, wild clammy cherry
Cordia thaisiana
Cordia trichotoma - Letiribí
Cordia wagneriorum - Luquillo Mountain manjack

[edit] Different cordia species

Cordia dichotoma trunk in Hyderabad, India.	Cordia dichotoma leaves in Hyderabad, India.	Cordia dichotoma flowers in Hyderabad, India.	Cordia dichotoma flowers in Hyderabad, India.
Cordia dichotoma flowers in Hyderabad, India.	C. sinensis foliage and fruit.	C. dichotoma foliage.	C. sinensis trees.