Pseudolmedia laevis
Moraceae FAMILY

Pseudolmedia laevis

Pseudolmedia laevis

Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

A shade-loving species that grows in partial shade on terra firma in clayey soils[1]. A dioecious species, both male and female forms need to be grown if fruit and seed are required[2].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Illustrated Booklet of 25 Forest Species of Putumayo, Colombia. — USAID/Colombia. ↩︎A PDF Document released on the Internet, giving good descriptions and brief notes on the uses of 25 tree species from Colombia.
  2. [2]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/
  3. [3]Woods of Northeastern Peru — Williams L. · Field Museum Press; Chicago. · 1936 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ ↩︎Gives information on the properties of the wood of well over 1,000 species of woody plants from northeastern Peru. Can be downloaded from the Internet.
  4. [4]Flora of Peru — Macbride. J.F. · Field Museum of Natural History · 1936 ↩︎An excellent attempt at a Flora of Peru, though it is clear that many of the plants were imperfectly known at that time and so information on them was sketchy. Available for download from the Internet.
  5. [5]Useful Plants of the Siona and Secoya Indians of Eastern Ecuador. — Vickers W.T.; Plowman T. · Field Museum of Natural History; USA. · 1984 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org · ISBN 0015 - 0746 ↩︎Very terse, but it gives the uses of a large number of species. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  6. [6]Descriptions of new genera and species of plants collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valle — Rusby H.H. · 1927 ↩︎
  7. [7]Non-timber forest products of the North-West District of Guyana — van Andel T.R. · Tropenbos-Guyana Programme; Georgetown, Guyana · 2000 · ISBN 90-393-2536-7 ↩︎A very detailed study of the peoples and the plants they use, it includes a field guide to almost 500 species of useful plants.