Cupania glabra Sw.

Florida toadwood (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Cupania

Characteristics

A perennial tree. It grows 14m high.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 14.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Moist or wet forest or thickets at elevations up to 1,700 metres.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Anodyne (unspecified), Catarrh (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Medicine (unspecified), Calculus (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

Habit

Cupania glabra habit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Leaf

Cupania glabra leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Cupania glabra leaf picture by Anghelo Herrera Calvo (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Cupania glabra fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Cupania glabra fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Cupania glabra fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Cupania glabra world distribution map, present in Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and United States of America

Conservation status

Cupania glabra threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:782435-1
WFO ID wfo-0000629476
COL ID 6C3PL
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Matayba denticulata Stadmannia frazeri Cupania glabra Cupania multijuga Cupania americana Cupania excelsa