Combretaceae Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertner f. in Gaertner

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Keywords in this picture :

• Foliage
• Fruit
• Lamina leaf blade
• Vegetative
• Venation
• Leaf parts
• Flower & fruit
• Leaf
• Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

• Levera National Park - GRENADA

Species information

Description
Pneumatophores from mud around base of tree; tree to 15m; Lamina 3-8.5cm long; notched at apex. Two glands at top of petiole and throughout the leaf blade, at fork of veins near the margins. Flos in axillary spikes; fruit leathery with calyx at apex, 15m-20mm long.

Interest
Laguncularia means 'small bottle' in LAtin, referring to the fruit. Bark was sometimes used for tanning medicine and medicinally.

Specimen information

Collection Date
25/11/1999

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, C. Hughes

Specimen Number
217

Location
NE tip of Grenada, immediately behind Levera beach, in mangroves around Levera Pond.

Notes
Small slender straggly tree to 4m ht. Outer bark vertically fissured with flakes peeling off in long strips. Slash, easily separated from sapwood, salmon pink to fawn, with a sweet sickly smell, like sugarcane. Leaves: petioles pink above with 2 glands two-thirds along petiole; very glandular along margin, the glands red-brown, very rubbery texture; upper surface - midrib sl. yellow, flattened; lower surface - with small scales, midrib yellow, translucent dots visible. (RHS colour code: Leaf upper =139A, below=146A)

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.130000 N   Longitude: 61.360000 W   Altitude: 5