Ocotea spathulata

Botanical Description

Ocotea spathulata is an evergreen tree; it can grow up to 13 metres tall. The bole can be 45cm in diameter with narrow buttresses at the base of larger trees[ 447 Title Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Publication Author Little E.L.; Wadsworth F.H. Publisher USDA, Forest Service; Washington. Year 1964 ISBN Description Contains detailed information, and usually an illustration, on 250 tree species, including both native and exotic species. ]. This tree produces the most unusual and perhaps the most attractively figured commercial wood of Puerto Rico. It has been widely exploited from the wild, to the point where there are few large trees left that are large enough to exploit[ 447 Title Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Publication Author Little E.L.; Wadsworth F.H. Publisher USDA, Forest Service; Washington. Year 1964 ISBN Description Contains detailed information, and usually an illustration, on 250 tree species, including both native and exotic species. ].