Moraceae FAMILY

Castilla ulei

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitDeciduous Tree

Growth—

A tree of the lowland humid tropics. The tree has long, spreading, superficial roots^[1]. Individual plants can either produce only male flowers (dioecious) or they can produce both male and female flowers (monoecious)^{[2, 1]}.

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Wind, ?Insects

References

[1]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.
[2]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.
[3]Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants — http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 ↩︎Terse details of a huge range of useful plants.