Rutaceae FAMILY

Metrodorea stipularis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Metrodorea stipularis is an evergreen tree with a globose crown when young, becoming narrow as the tree grows older. It can grow 8 - 12 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be 40 - 50cm in diameter[ 419 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 1. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-17-8 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 of its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - eastern and central Brazil.

HabitatAn understorey tree in forests, found almost exclusively in dense, primary formations[ 419 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 1. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-17-8 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. ].