Alchornea glandulosa

Alchornea glandulosa is a tree species of the Acalyphoideae native to South America, growing for example in southern Brazil from Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul. It is locally known as tamanqueiro, tapiá or amor seco. This gnarled tree grows preferentially in riparian forest, where it a common pioneer species growing to a height of 10–20 m. It is essentially evergreen, though in the hot austral summer months there is a more pronounced changeover of leaves, and branches are denuded to some extent.

The fruit is about 8.7 mm long by 5.9 mm wide on average, and contains one round seed measuring about 4.45 mm in diameter; very rarely a second seed develops. This sticks out of an aril at the fruit's tip; when ripe, the seedcoat turns bright red and the fruit somewhat resembles that of a yew with a larger and more prominent seed. Fruit ripen in the summer months, roughly between September/October and December/January in S Brazil, and as the trees bear less leaves at that time than otherwise, the bright red fruit are easily spotted.

TAPI

TAPI is a four-letter abbreviation, and may refer to:

Tapi may refer to:

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TAPI-1

TAPI-1 ( TNF-alpha protease inhibitor I) is a structural analog of TAPI-0 with similar but more stable validness in vitro for the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and TNF- alpha converting enzyme which blocks shedding of several cell surface proteins such as IL-6 and p60 TNF receptor.

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