Melochia tomentosa L.

Teabush (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Melochia

Characteristics

A perennial hermaphrodite deciduous shrub. It grows 2.5m high.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.5
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use medicinal poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use Back pain (root), Eye (unspecified), Tea (unspecified), Ache(Back) (unspecified), Refrigerant (unspecified), Headache (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Flower

Melochia tomentosa flower picture by dude sailaway (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Melochia tomentosa world distribution map, present in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Barbados, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Guatemala, French Guiana, Honduras, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Mexico, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States of America, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:157023-2
WFO ID wfo-0000452214
COL ID 3ZLYV
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 630138
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Melochia tomentosa Moluchia tomentosa Melochia plicata Melochia turpiniana Melochia hypoleuca Sida rajoides Melochia portoricensis Melochia arida Riedlea hypoleuca Moluchia frutescens Riedlea crenata Visenia crenata Melochia diffusa Melochia frutescens Melochia crenata Melochia tomentosa var. frutescens Melochia tomentosa var. bahiensis Melochia tomentosa var. tomentosa Melochia tomentosa var. turpiniana Melochia tomentosa var. typica