The Low-Down on High-Concentration Vitamin C

    Camu camu fruit has the highest recorded amount of natural Vitamin C known on the planet! Many scientists and even everyday people are becoming more and more interested in the medicinal value of this sour fruit, also known as Camo camo, Rumberry, and Cacari. Traditionally made into a juice by people of the rainforest to help maintain their health, camu-camu has more Vitamin C than any other known botanical.
   This website was created to focus on many important aspects of the Camu camu plant, but also check out the websites of my classmates at www.multipleorganisms.net to view information
                                                              about many other interesting organisms.

Scientific classification
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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Myrciaria
Species: Myrciaria dubia
Binomial name: Myrciaria dubia, (McVaugh)

Phylogenetic tree

(Domain)---Eukarya Characteristics: complex cells that have a membrane bound nucleus that contains
the genetic material for the cell, and also other membrane bound organelles that
prokaryotes do not have

(Kingdom)

---Animalia

---Fungi

---Protista

---Stramenopila

---Plantae Characteristics: cell walls, chloroplasts, and it undergoes the process of
photosynthesis

(Division)

---Bryophyta---liverworts, mosses

---Equisetophyta---horsetails

---Lycopodiophyta---clubmosses

---Pinophyta---pines, ginkgo, cycads

---Polypodiophyta---ferns

---Psilotophyta---whisk ferns

                        ---Magnoliophyta Characteristics: flowering plant with structures such as stamens,
                                                          stigmas, ovaries, and male pollen and female seeds (covered, not
                                                          naked like gymnosperms)

(Class)

---Liliopsida

---Piperopsida

---Ranunculopsida

---Rosopsida

                                    ---Magnoliopsida Characteristics: flowering plant whose embryos have a single
                                                                     cotyledon (grouped as monocots, or monocotyledonous
                                                                     plants); as opposed to embryos with two cotyledons (grouped
                                                                     as dicots, or dicotyledonous plants). (For more examples
                                                                     under this class, please see Sweet Violet and Dandelion)

(Order… just a few)

---Apiales (Carrot family)

---Capparales (Mustard family)

---Fabales (Pea family)

---Juglandales (Walnut family)

---Urticales (Mulberry family)

---Myrtales Characteristics: combined occurrence of vestured
pits and bicollateralbundles in the wood

(Family)

---Onagraceae

---Combretaceae

---Lythraceae

---Melastomataceae

---Thymelaeaceae

---Punicaceae

---Trapaceae

                                                                                ---Myrtaceae Characteristics: woody shrubs/trees,
                                                                                                         leaves are aromatic, containing oil glands,
                                                                                                         flowers usually have five sepals and
                                                                                                         petals and many long stamen, fruit
                                                                                                         Photo by Microsoft Clipart generally woody

(Genus)

---Baeckea

---Feijoa

---Myrtus

---Myrcia

---Syncarpia

                             ---Myrciaria Characteristics: genus of tropical
                                                     American trees and shrubs of the
                                                     myrtle family versus the dry
                                                     fruits

(Species…just a few)

---Myrciaria jaboticaba

---Myrciaria tenella

---Myrciaria vexator

                                                                                                              ---Myrciaria dubia Characteristics:
                                                                                                                                                 highest Vitamin C
                                                                                                                                                 content on the
                                                                                                                                                 planet, red-purple
                                                                                                                                                 fruit