Editing Malpighia emarginata (section)

==Distribution==
''Malpighia emarginata'' is originally native to the [[Lesser Antilles]] islands of the southern [[Caribbean Sea]], extending into South America as far south as Brazil.<ref name=morton/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aguilera-Arango |first1=Germán Andrés |last2=Aparicio |first2=Jorge Mario Del Toro |last3=Rodriguez |first3=Javier Orlando Orduz |title=Acerola (Malpighia emarginata D.C.): Fruta promisoria con posibilidades de cultivo en Colombia. Una revisión |trans-title=Acerola (Malpighia emarginata DC): Promising fruit with cultivation possibilities in Colombia. A review |journal=Avances en Investigación Agropecuaria |date=2020 |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=7–22 |id={{Gale|A633063617}} |url=https://revistasacademicas.ucol.mx/index.php/agropecuaria/article/view/193 |language=es }}</ref>  It has been introduced and even naturalized elsewhere in the neotropics, such as in [[Peru]], [[Venezuela]], and [[Ecuador]], as well as the southernmost parts of the [[contiguous United States]] (southern [[Florida]]<ref name="GRINEmarginata">{{GRIN|accessdate=2010-02-02}}</ref> and the Lower [[Rio Grande Valley (Texas)|Rio Grande Valley]] of [[Texas]]).<ref name="GRINEmarginata" /><ref name="GRINGlabra">{{GRIN|''Malpighia glabra''|23206|accessdate=2009-12-16}}</ref><ref name="A&M">{{cite web |title=Barbados Cherry, Mexican Myrtle, Manzanita, Cerez, Huacacote, Wild Crepe Myrtle, Manyonita, Cerezo de Jamaica, Cerezo de Castillo, Pallo de Gallina, Escobillo, Chia, Arrayncito, Xocat, Xocatatl ''Malpighia glabra'' |url=http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/nativeshrubs/malpighiaglabra.htm |access-date=2009-12-15 |work=Benny Simpson's Texas Native Shrubs |publisher=Texas A&M University}}</ref> In Florida, it can be grown in protected locations as far north as [[Cape Canaveral]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Boning |first=Charles |title=Florida's Best Fruiting Plants: Native and Exotic Trees, Shrubs, and Vines |publisher=Pineapple Press, Inc. |year=2006 |location=Sarasota, Florida |page=41}}</ref> It is cultivated in the [[tropics]] and [[subtropics]] throughout the world from southern Europe to parts of Africa, [[India]], and [[Australia]].<ref name="Hanelt">{{cite book |last=Hanelt |first=Peter |url={{GBurl|id=10IMFSavIMsC|p=1127}} |title=Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops (Except Ornamentals) |publisher=Springer |year=2001 |isbn=978-3-540-41017-1 |pages=1127–1128}}</ref>