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.
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
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)
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 bicollateral bundles in the wood
(Family)
---Onagraceae
---Combretaceae
---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
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