Descriptive
Information
- Field
Marks: "Leaves are alternate, attractive, pinnately
compound with no terminal leaflet. Leaflets typically are in
two to four paris, ovate to lance shaped, the blades of many leaflets
curving backwards toward the base of the rachis. Flowers are
small with tiny white or yellow petals. The fruit is a large,
woody, upright, egg shaped capsule splitting into five parts from
the base and releasing numerous winged seeds. Rough, dark brown,
coarsely fissured bark, a buttressed base, and large spreading branches.
"
- Size:
"Evergreen tree to about 15 m in height."
- General
Habitat: "Native in parts of Dade and Monroe
counties; cultured in warm areas of the peninsula. Requires
full sun or partial shade. It is tolerant of many soils, acid
or alkaline and it quite tolerant of salt drift."
- Geographic
Range: "Occurs naturally in tropical hammocks
of the southern tip of Florida and the Keys but often planted as a
handsome street tree throughout southern Florida."
- Ecosystems
Where Observed: Hardwood Hammocks
- Other
Information: "Produces a valuable lumber and
for this reason large trees are scarce. An important shade tree
in urban areas. It is unlikely to be confused with any other
Florida tree."
- References:
(Nelson, 1994, p.230)
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