Celtis mildbraedii
Celtis mildbraedii
Safety & Hazards
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Botanical Description
Celtis mildbraedii is an evergreen to deciduous shrub or a tree with a small, rounded crown of thin, horizontal branches; it can grow from 3 - 55 metres tall. The slightly sinuous, cylindrical bole is unbranched for much of its height, it can be 30 - 100cm in diameter with 4 - 5 sharp buttresses 5 metres or more high, 2 metres wide and 10cm thick[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description 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/ ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of wood. The wood is of good quality, it is commonly harvested from the wild and exported. Although sometimes threatened locally, the overall population of Celtis mildbraedii is large due to its wide native range. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2018)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].