Myrtaceae FAMILY

Psidium myrtoides

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Psidium myrtoides is a semideciduous tree with an elongate crown; it can grow 4 - 8 metres tall. The straight bole can be 20 - 35cm in diameter[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 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 harvested from the wild as a local source of food and wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - eastern and central Brazil.

HabitatFound mainly in primary formations in the Atlantic and littoral rainforests, preferring higher ground on deep, fertile, well-drained, clayey soils[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 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. ].