Simaroubaceae Simarouba amara Aublet

| |	© C. Hughes

Keywords in this picture :

• Foliage
• Leaflet
• Vegetative
• Leaf parts
• Leaf
• Parts of compound lvs
• Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

• Vendome Estate - GRENADA
• Morne Gazo - GRENADA

Specimen information

Collection Date
12/11/1999

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, C. Hughes & A Clarke

Specimen Number
9

Location
10km E of St. Georges rd to Grenville, 500m W of Gran Etang Forest Reserve Boundary, just E of the Vendome Estate.

Notes
Large tree with Entadophragma branching to 20m ht. with slightly root-spurred, no buttresses. Bark surface w very fine (1/cm) vertical fissures, pale grey-brown to cinnamon brown (165D). Inner bark tinged greenish, slash pale creamy yellow (161B), fibrous, gritty, very bitter. Leaves glossy above, matt below. (RHS colour code: Leaf upper =139A, below=144A)

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.050000 N   Longitude: 61.420000 W   Altitude: 300