Sideroxylon grandiflorum
Sideroxylon grandiflorum, yang dikenal sebagai tambalacoque atau pohon tambalacoque, adalah sebuah pohon panjang umur dalam keluarga Sapotaceae, endemik dari Mauritius. Pohon tersebut dinikahi untuk diambil biji zakarnya.
Sideroxylon grandiflorum 
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| Taksonomi | |
| Superkerajaan | Eukaryota |
| Kerajaan | Plantae |
| Divisi | Tracheophytes |
| Ordo | Ericales |
| Famili | Sapotaceae |
| Genus | Sideroxylon |
| Spesies | Sideroxylon grandiflorum A.DC. |
| Distribusi | |
| Endemik | Mauritius Island (en)  |
Referensi
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- King, H. C. (1946): Interim Report on Indigenous Species in Mauritius. Port Louis, Mauritius: Government Printer.
- Owadally, A. W. & Temple, Stanley A. (1979): The dodo and the tambalacoque tree. Science 203(4387): 1363-1364.
- Quammen, David (1996): The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction. Touchstone, New York.ISBN 0-684-82712-3
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