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Combretum fruticosum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

(Loefling) Stuntz

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Minas Gerais
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Gallery forest
• disturbed forest
• riverside
• thickets
• floodplain
• savanna
• forest
• lakeside

Flowering Times

• Sep-Nov (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Nov & Feb (Colombia)

Twining evergreen glabrous liana, shrub or tree with leaves & calyx covered in resinous dots. Leaves to 170mm x 80mm, glabrous above, scaly beneath,young leaves with rusty down. Densely flowered spikes of axillary or terminal panicles to 240mm long with bracts of 25mm green to yellow-orange or red fragrant flowers with scarlet stamens, calyx tube to 7mm long with lobes a little longer, yellow petals 2mm long. Reddish-brown ridged or winged scaly fruit to 30mm x 25mm, showy with four wings to 22mm.

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• HUBM
• Rusby