A genus of plants in the Miraceae family named after Pliny the Elder, author of Naturalis Historia and killed in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. One of the last to be identified has been the Plinia Puriscalensis, a tree endemic to the La Cangreja natural park southwest of San José de Costa Rica about 40 kms from Santiago de Puriscal, a tree that has the peculiarity that it bears fruit on the trunk.
