Polygonaceae FAMILY
Triplaris cumingiana
Triplaris cumingiana
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
The terminal branches are pubescent and hollow. They are inhabited by very aggressive ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex - these will descend in hordes and aggressively attack any creature on the trunk[1].
Cultivation Details
HabitEvergreen Tree
Growth—
A plant of moist, lowland tropical areas. Plants may begin to flower when as little as 11 metres tall with a bole 12cm in diameter[2]. A dioecious species, both male and female forms need to be grown if seed is required.
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Triplaris+cumingiana>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]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.
- [2]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.
- [3]Tropical Timbers of the World. Ag. Handbook No. 607. — Chudnoff. Martin. · USDA Forest Service. Wisconsin. · 1984 ↩︎Terse details on the properties of the wood of almost 400 species of trees from the Tropics.