page_title: Malpighia emarginata
section_title: Flowers
hierarchical_section_title: Malpighia emarginata / Description / Flowers
context_page_description: Malpighia emarginata is a tropical fruit-bearing shrub or small tree in the family Malpighiaceae.
  Common names include acerola cherry, Barbados cherry, West Indian cherry, and wild crepe myrtle.
  Acerola is native to South America, southern Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Brazil, and Central America, but is now also being grown as far north as Texas and in subtropical areas of Asia, such as India.
  It is known for being extremely rich in vitamin C, almost as much as camu camu, although M. emarginata also contains vitamins A, B₁, B₂, and B₃, as well as carotenoids and bioflavonoids, which provide important nutritive value and have antioxidant uses.
context_section_description: Flowers are bisexual and 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) in diameter. They have five pale to deep pink or red fringed petals, 10 stamens, and six to 10 glands on the calyx. The three to five flowers per inflorescence are sessile or short-peduncled axillary cymes.
caption: Flower
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