Rubiaceae FAMILY

Posoqueria acutifolia

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Posoqueria acutifolia is an evergreen tree with a sparse, pyramidal crown growing 4 - 8 metres tall. The cylindrical bole is usually branched from low down, it can be 20 - 30cm 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 sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - eastern Brazil.

HabitatMainly found in alluvial plains, valley bottoms and along rivers in the Atlantic rainforest, growing in deep, fertile 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. ].