Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Hirtella carbonaria

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Hirtella carbonaria is a tree growing up to 10 metres tall. The tree is harvested from the wild for its wood, which is used locally for making charcoal.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Ecuador, Colombia.

HabitatCoastal thickets and margins of mangrove swamps, in areas periodically flooded by sea water[ 735 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 19: 1-268 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 56833 2 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. ].