Myrtaceae FAMILY

Neomitranthes gemballae

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Neomitranthes gemballae is a semideciduous tree with a dense, pyramidal crown; it grows 6 - 12 metres tall. The straight bole can be 20 - 30cm in diameter[ 625 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2009 ISBN 85-86714-34-4 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - southern Brazil.

HabitatAn understorey plant in the Atlantic rainforest, seasonal, and Araucaria forests; favouring the dense, primary forest, where it is most common on the alluvial floodplains in seasonally waterlogged soils[ 625 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2009 ISBN 85-86714-34-4 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ].