Elaeocarpaceae FAMILY

Sloanea retusa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Sloanea retusa is an evergreen tree with a small, rounded crown; it can grow 8 - 14 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be 40 - 50cm 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 - eastern Brazil.

HabitatMainly in secondary formations in gallery forests and higher elevation semideciduous forests, found on a wide variety of soils but favouring well-drained slopes at elevations from 400 - 700 metres[ 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. ].