Euphorbiaceae Hippomane

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Keywords in this picture :

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

Places where this species can be found :

• Levera National Park - GRENADA

Specimen information

Collection Date
25/11/1999

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, C. Hughes

Specimen Number
218

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

Notes
Small, low-branched tree with a spreading, irregular, assymetrically wind sculpted crown to 6m ht. and 40cm dbh. Outer bark rough, vertically fissured, square scaled with reddish-brown lenticels in cracks. Slash hard, granular, sl. fibrous, with copious whitish latex. Stipules blackish. Leaves faintly serrated; single gland at tip of petiole; upper surface - midrib yellow. Fruits falling green, turning cinnamon brown when dry on ground, dehiscent to reveal 12-locules, like Hura fruits. Sap reputed to burn skin on contact. (RHS colour code: Leaf upper =146A, below=143C)

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