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Cordia curassavica

Botanic Family

Boraginaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Roemer & Schultes

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Rio Grande do Sul
• São Paulo
• Minas Gerais
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Curacao
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Dominican Republic
• Lesser Antilles
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Puerto Rico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Suriname
• Trinidad
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Floodplain
• woodland
• streamside
• coastal
• lakeside
• forest remnants
• hedgerows
• marshland
• forest
• savanna
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jul
• Aug

Viny scrambler, shrub or tree with rank odour, branches hairy or downy. Leaves to 200mm x 100mm tomentose beneath, scabrous above & serrated. Terminal & lateral spikes to 100mm long of flowers white, 5-toothed downy calyx to 3.5mm long, throat of corolla pilose,white corolla 5mm long, glabrous drupe red,

Further References

• NYBG
• Neotrop
• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• JAA
• Standley