WorldFloraDB - Pseudolmedia spuria

Characteristics

Trees 8-20 m. tall, the young branches relatively slender, glabrous. Leaves ovate-to oblong-elliptic, rather abruptly and bluntly subcaudate-acuminate to subcuspidate, the base obtuse to rounded, firmly membranaceous to subcoriaceous, entire, 9-15 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, glabrous or essentially so, the petiole 3-5 mm. long; stipules vary narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate, 1-2 cm. long. Staminate heads usually paired, sessile or subsessile, about 8-10 mm. in diameter, the bracts broadly obtuse, minutely puberulent. Pistillate heads sessile, the flowers ovoid, about 2 mm. long, softly puberulent, the stigma lobes about equally long. Drupes broadly ovoid, fleshy, about 1 cm. long and broad.

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A tree. It grows 15 m tall. The bark is rough and scaly. It has milky sap. The leaves are long and pointed. The flowers are very small and do not have leaf stalks. They occur at the base of the leaves. The fruit is red and like a cherry. It is enclosed in a fleshy covering. It contains one seed. The fruit is edible.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	dioecy
Pollination	entomogamy
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Mature height (meter)	15.0
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

Wet, climax forests at elevations around sea level. Moist limestone hills near the northern coast of Puerto Rico, at elevations from 60-180 metres. Moist forests at elevations up to 900 metres in Panama.

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A tropical plant.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	medicinal wood
Edible	fruits
Therapeutic use	Headache (unspecified), Malaria (unspecified), Styptic (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
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