Opiliaceae FAMILY

Agonandra excelsa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Agonandra excelsa is a semideciduous with an open, more or less rounded crown, it can grow 8 - 10 metres tall, exceptionally to 15 metres. The cylindrical bole can be 20 - 40cm in diameter with a thick bark[ 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. , 733 Title Opiliaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 12: 1-71 Publication Author Hiepko P. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève; Switze Year 2008 ISBN 978-2-8277-0451-4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Argentina, Paraguay, southern, central and eastern Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador.

HabitatAn understorey plant in riparian or periodically flooded forest, in subtropical semideciduous or deciduous forest, and on pasture land; favouring moist soils close to rivers; at elevations from sea level to 1,000 metres, rarely to 1,800 metres[ 623 Title Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 90 Publication Author Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Year 2003 ISBN 0026-6493 Description A treatment of the genus Styrax, amongst many other articles. It can be downloaded from the Internet. , 733 Title Opiliaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 12: 1-71 Publication Author Hiepko P. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève; Switze Year 2008 ISBN 978-2-8277-0451-4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].