Fabaceae FAMILY

Bauhinia ungulata

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Bauhinia ungulata is a spiny, semideciduous shrub or small tree with a low, dense, roundish crown; it can grow up to 5 metres tall. The short bole can be 15 - 25cm 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 medicine and source of wood. It can be grown as a pioneer species when restoring native woodland.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana; C. America - Panama to Mexico.

HabitatForested coastal sandbars, semideciduous forests and gallery forests, favouring the more open and secondary areas of growth[ 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. ]. Wet to dry thickets, or in forest; at elevations up to 1,000 metres[ 331 Title Flora of Guatemala Publication Author Standley P.C. & J. A. Steyermark Website http://www.archive.org/ Publisher Year 1946 - 1976 ISBN Description A superb reference, though somewhat dated. Gives lots of plant uses as well as information on plant habit and habitat. The entire flora (13 volumes) can now be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/ ].