Pentaphylacaceae FAMILY

Ternstroemia brasiliensis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ternstroemia brasiliensis is a semideciduous tree with an open, more or less roundish crown; it can grow 4 - 7 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be 20 - 30cm in diameter[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 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 medicine and source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - southern and eastern Brazil, Bolivia.

HabitatAtlantic rainforest and semideciduous forest at higher elevations, in both the dense, primary forest and in more open areas; favouring fertile, well-drained soils, often on the tops of hills[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 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. ].