Salicaceae FAMILY

Xylosma ciliatifolia

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Xylosma ciliatifolia is a spiny, semideciduous shrub or tree growing up to 9 metres tall. The short bole is armed with long, branched spines; it can be 20 - 30cm 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 as a medicine and source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Paraguay, southern, eastern, central and northeastern Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, French Guiana.

HabitatAn understorey plant in various forest formations, usually in the dense, primary forest, but also found in more open, secondary formations[ 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. ].