Schaefferia frutescens Jacq.

Florida boxwood (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Schaefferia

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees to 12 m. Stems: twigs not spinescent; short shoots absent. Leaves alternate; petiole present; blade elliptic, ovate, or oblanceolate, 40–60 × 15–30 mm, base attenuate, apex round or broadly obtuse. Pedicels (fruiting) 4–6 mm. Flowers: sepals 0.7 mm; petals oblanceolate, 2.5 mm. Drupes bright red or scarlet, 4–6 mm. Seeds yellow.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 9.0
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Environment

Thickets and open woodlands on arid, limestone soils at elevations of 15-720 metres in Jamaica.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Aphrodisiac (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Flu (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Images

Schaefferia frutescens unspecified picture

Distribution

Schaefferia frutescens world distribution map, present in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Mexico, Montserrat, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Schaefferia frutescens threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:162760-1
WFO ID wfo-0000435798
COL ID 79VLW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 630608
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Schaefferia viridescens Schaefferia elliptica Schaefferia frutescens Schaefferia completa Schaefferia lanceifolia Bumelia berteroi Schaefferia buxifolia