Rutaceae FAMILY
Metrodorea nigra
Metrodorea nigra
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Metrodorea nigra is an evergreen tree with a dense, flat-topped crown; it can grow 4 - 5 metres tall. The short bole can be 20 - 30cm 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 as a medicine and source of wood.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeS. America - eastern and northern Brazil.
HabitatAn understorey plant of the Atlantic rainforest and broadleaved semideciduous forests, found almost exclusively in dense primary formations, favouring moist, lowland areas in valleys and at the foot of slopes[ 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. ].