Salicaceae FAMILY

Zuelania guidonia

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Zuelania guidonia is a deciduous tree with a high, thin, pyramidal crown; it can grow 10 - 25 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole is free of branches for the greatest majority of its height, it can be 10 - 60cm in diameter[ 333 Title Tree Species of Panama Publication Author Website http://ctfs.arnarb.harvard.edu/webatlas/mainframe.php?order=s Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Factsheets on all the tree and shrub species of Panama, giving identification guide, brief guide to the species and some uses. A vast, but rather incomplete work as of 15/07/09. , 510 Title Trees of Costa Rica's Pacific Slope Publication Author Website http://www.cds.ed.cr/teachers/harmon/page1.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Information on over 80 species of tree from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for its medicinal uses and its timber.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeNorthern S. America - Colombia, Venezuela; C. America - Panama to Mexico; Caribbean - Trinidad to Bahamas; Southern N. America - Mexico.

HabitatA sub-canopy and, rarely, a canopy tree, found in both moist and dry forests[ 315 Title Flora of Barro Colorado Island Publication Author Croat. Thomas B. Website http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/croat/home Publisher Stanford University Press Year 1978 ISBN 0-8047-0950-5 Description A very good flora of an area in Panama. Written some years ago, so some of the names have been changed. The book is out of print, but the whole flora is now available on the web. , 510 Title Trees of Costa Rica's Pacific Slope Publication Author Website http://www.cds.ed.cr/teachers/harmon/page1.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Information on over 80 species of tree from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. ].