Salicaceae FAMILY

Banara tomentosa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Banara tomentosa is a semideciduous tree with a dense, rounded crown; it can grow from 4 - 9 metres tall. The straight bole can be 15 - 25cm in diameter[ 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. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, southern and eastern Brazil, Bolivia.

HabitatAn understorey plant in Araucaria forests, and also in lightly wooded grassland; favouring moist soils[ 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. ].