Anadenanthera peregrina (L.) Speg.

Cohoba tree (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Anadenanthera

Characteristics

A perennial hermaphrodite deciduous tree. It grows 25m high.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 25.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Margins of upland rainforests and granite flats, also along rivers and creeks. Semideciduous forests and their transition to savannah in Brazil.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses charcoal drug environmental use material medicinal poison social use stimulant vertebrate poison wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Hallucinogen (unspecified), Snuff (unspecified), Intoxicant (unspecified), Narcotic (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Psychedelic (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Fruit

Anadenanthera peregrina fruit picture by Thiago Flores Flores (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Anadenanthera peregrina world distribution map, present in American Samoa, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Brazil, Colombia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Anadenanthera peregrina threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1079624-2
WFO ID wfo-0000169565
COL ID DCKQ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 629069
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Anadenanthera peregrina Acacia peregrina Mimosa parvifolia Acacia microphylla Acacia angustiloba Mimosa niopo Acacia niopo Anadenanthera falcata Piptadenia falcata Acacia niopo Niopa peregrina Piptadenia niopo Acacia trichophylloides Inga niopo Anadenanthera peregrina var. peregrina Piptadenia peregrina var. falcata Anadenanthera peregrina var. falcata Mimosa peregrina Mimosa acacioides Piptadenia peregrina