Castilla tunu
Moraceae FAMILY

Castilla tunu

Castilla tunu

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitDeciduous Tree
Growth—

Individual plants can either produce only male flowers (dioecious) or they can produce both male and female flowers (monoecious)[1, 2].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Castilla+tunu>

Pollinators

Wind, ?Insects

References

  1. [1]Flora of Barro Colorado Island — Croat. Thomas B. · Stanford University Press · 1978 · http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/croat/home · ISBN 0-8047-0950-5 ↩︎A very good flora of an area in Panama. Written some years ago, so some of the names have been changed. The book is out of print, but the whole flora is now available on the web.
  2. [2]Contributions from the United States National Herbarium Vol. 13 — Government Printing Office; Washington. · 1909 - 1912 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎A botanical journal, it ncludes a treatment of the genus Castilla. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  3. [3]Flora of Costa Rica — Standley P.C. · Field Museum of Natural History; Chicago · 1938 · http://www.archive.org/ ↩︎Rather dated, but an excellent treatment of the area. Available for download from the internet.
  4. [4]A Century of Trees of Panama. — Pittier H. Mell C.D. · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎A work that was very difficult to get published according to the correspondence contained at the start!. A treatment of 100 different species with descriptions and details of uses. It can be downloaded from the Internet.