Sapindaceae FAMILY

Matayba elaeagnoides

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Matayba elaeagnoides is a semideciduous tree with an open crown growing 6 - 14 metres tall. The short, crooked bole can be 30 - 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 - Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, southern and eastern Brazil, Bolivia.

HabitatAn understorey tree in Araucaria forest and broadleaved forests found in dense primary forest and in the more advanced stages of secondary forest; favouring moist soils[ 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. ].