Sapotaceae Bumelia celastrina Kunth.

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Places where this species can be found :

• Tehuantepec - HUGHESFRP
• Barra de la Cruz - HUGHESFRP

Specimen information

Collection Date
26/02/2000

Collector
Hughes CE

Specimen Number
1960

Location
2km E of Barra de la Cruz, on the rear of the beach.

Notes
Medium-sized tree to 12m ht with a very thick branchy crown casting dense shade. Twigs with sharp 1-2cm long thorns. Outer bark very thick with pronounced sharply defined 2cm deep vertical sl. sinuous ridges. Slash fibrous, soft, pale salmon pink. Leaves: midrib and laterals, but no tertiary venation visible on either surface. Fruit a drupe, unripe fruits green, faintly striped paler whitish-green with copious white milky latex when damaged and sometimes appearing as small beads on surface of apparently undamaged fruits, turning black when ripe, the flesh purple. Infrequent, scattered in disturbed selva baja with Pterocarpus, Trichilia, Crataeva, Capparis, Caesalpinia, Acacia and Senna.

Coordinates
Latitude: 15.490000 N   Longitude: 95.540000 W   Altitude: 5