Ternstroemia tepezapote
Pentaphylacaceae FAMILY

Ternstroemia tepezapote

Ternstroemia tepezapote

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The mashed bark is used to stupefy fish[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Tree
Growth—

A plant of mainly moist to wet lowland areas in the tropics, though it can be found at elevations up to more than 3,000 metres in Guatemala. The flowers have a pleasant anise-like aroma[2].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ternstroemia+tepezapote>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]A Century of Trees of Panama. — Pittier H. Mell C.D. · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎A work that was very difficult to get published according to the correspondence contained at the start!. A treatment of 100 different species with descriptions and details of uses. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  2. [2]Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 54 — Missouri Botanical Garden · 1967 ↩︎An excellent botanical publication, available for download from the Internet. This volume contains parts of the Flora of Panama.
  3. [3]Flora of Barro Colorado Island — Croat. Thomas B. · Stanford University Press · 1978 · http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/croat/home · ISBN 0-8047-0950-5 ↩︎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.
  4. [4]Tree Species of Panama — http://ctfs.arnarb.harvard.edu/webatlas/mainframe.php?order=s ↩︎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.
  5. [5]Flora of Guatemala — Standley P.C. & J. A. Steyermark · 1946 - 1976 · http://www.archive.org/ ↩︎A superb reference, though somewhat dated. Gives lots of plant uses as well as information on plant habit and habitat. The entire flora (13 volumes) can now be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/