Jobo

Distributed throughout West Indies (except Bahamas), and from southern Mexico to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, in part cultivated or naturalized. It is also planted in southern Florida. The tree usually grows along roadsides and fence rows, in pastures and forests in the coastal, moist limestone, and lower mountain regions of Puerto Rico, perhaps naturalized rather than native. also believed to have been introduced into Africa from Central or South America, and is widely cultivated there on farmlands and around towns and villages for its fruits and as a living fence.

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