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Definition of Ramontchi
1. Noun. Small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums.
Group relationships: Flacourtia, Genus Flacourtia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramontchi
Literary usage of Ramontchi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"THE ramontchi, or Madagascar Plum-tree, is the Flacourtia ramontchi of our
Botanical Catalogues, and a native of Madagascar and the neighbouring Islands, ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
""ramontchi" is said to be the native name in Madagascar. LHB FLAG: Jru. ...
ramontchi. ix'.-i disposal of the same in wholesale or retail markets. ..."
3. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1813)
"Flacourtia ramontchi. L'Herit. stirp. nov. 59. t. 30. Shining-leaved Flacourtia.
Nat. ot Madagascar. Introd. 1775, by Mons. Richard. Fl. June and July. ..."
4. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"(I) F. ramontchi (L'Her. :) arborescent: thorns few, naked : leaves between
roundish-ovate and oblong ; young ones mucronate ; older ones somewhat obtuse, ..."
5. Economic Products of India Exhibited in the Economic Court, Calcutta by George Watt (1883)
"Kanju, Ph., Flacourtia ramontchi, L'Herit, . ' Kanju, Kumaun, Ulmus integrifolia,
Roxb., ... CP, Flacourtia ramontchi, L'Herit, ..."
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