Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Licania ternatensis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

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Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Licania ternatensis is an evergreen tree that can grow up to 30 metres tall. The long, straight, bole can be 60 - 90cm in diameter and is unbuttressed, though it can sometimes be fluted[ 378 Title Present and Potential Commercial Timbers of the Caribbean Publication USDA Agricultural Handbook No. 207 Author Longwood.F.R. Publisher USDA Forest Service; Washington, DC. Year 1962 ISBN Description Quite detailed information on more than 60 species of Caribbean timber trees, giving species descriptions, habitat, detailed info on the wood and some info on other uses. Available for download on the internet. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for its timber, which is used locally and is also exported.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeCaribbean - Leeward Islands, Trinidad, Windward Isles.

HabitatRainforests[ 378 Title Present and Potential Commercial Timbers of the Caribbean Publication USDA Agricultural Handbook No. 207 Author Longwood.F.R. Publisher USDA Forest Service; Washington, DC. Year 1962 ISBN Description Quite detailed information on more than 60 species of Caribbean timber trees, giving species descriptions, habitat, detailed info on the wood and some info on other uses. Available for download on the internet. ]. Forests and forested slopes[ 734 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 1. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 9: 1-319 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56832 4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ].