Moist or usually dry thickets or forest in the tierra caliente, common in the plains and lowlands of Guatemala. Found in a wide range of forest formations in Brazil, especially in secondary growth.
Life form | perennial |
Growth form | tree |
Growth support | - |
Foliage retention | deciduous |
Sexuality | dioecy |
Pollination | - |
Spread | - |
Mature width (meter) | 0.3 - 0.35 |
Mature height (meter) | 20.0 - 25.0 |
Root system | - |
Rooting depth (meter) | - |
Root diameter (meter) | - |
Flower color | - |
Blooming months | - |
Fruit color | - |
Fruiting months | - |
Nitrogen fixer | - |
Photosynthetic pathway | c3 |
Light | |
Soil humidity | |
Soil texture | |
Soil acidity | - |
Soil nutriment | - |
Hardiness (USDA) |
Uses | dye hedge invertebrate food material medicinal tanning wood |
Edible | fruits |
Therapeutic use | Astringent (unspecified), Cold (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Gingirrhagia (unspecified), Mouth (unspecified), Odontectomy (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Sore(Throat) (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Toothache (unspecified), Venereal (unspecified), Gout (unspecified), Dentifuge (unspecified), Medicine (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Stomatitis (unspecified), Vermifuge (unspecified) |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | cuttings seedlings |
Germination duration (days) | - |
Germination temperacture (C°) | - |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | - |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
Size | - |
Vigor | - |
Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1151750-2 |
WFO ID | wfo-0000447821 |
COL ID | 6QQKR |
BDTFX ID | 42969 |
INPN ID | 630075 |
Wikipedia (EN) | Link |
Wikipedia (FR) | Link |