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Bulletwood
Bulletwood is a common name for several plants or trees and may refer to: *''Manilkara bidentata'' and other ''Manilkara'' spp. *''Mimusops elengi'', from India to South East Asia, Asian bulletwood *''Mimusops caffra'', South Africa and South East Africa, Kaffir bulletwood *''Planchonella australis ''Pouteria australis'', also known by the synonym ''Planchonella australis'', is a medium to tall rainforest tree of the family Sapotaceae native to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It is known by the common name black apple, wild plum ...'', Yellow, Silver bulletwood *'' Pouteria pallida'', a Caribbean tree, Bastard bulletwood *'' Sideroxylon salicifolium'', '' Planchonella myrsinoides'', White bulletwood *'' Humiria balsamifera'', from Brazil and North South America, Bastard bulletwood {{Plant common name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manilkara Bidentata
''Manilkara bidentata'' is a species of ''Manilkara'' native to a large area of northern South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Common names include bulletwood, balatá, ausubo, massaranduba, quinilla, and (ambiguously) " cow-tree". Description The balatá is a large tree, growing to tall. The leaves are alternate, elliptical, entire, and long. The flowers are white, and are produced at the beginning of the rainy season. The fruit is a yellow berry, in diameter, which is edible; it contains one (occasionally two) seed(s). Its latex is used industrially for products such as chicle. Uses The latex is extracted in the same manner in which sap is extracted from the rubber tree. It is then dried to form an inelastic rubber-like material. It is almost identical to gutta-percha (produced from a closely related southeast Asian tree), and is sometimes called ''gutta-balatá''. Balatá was often used in the production of high-quality golf balls, to use as the outer layer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manilkara
''Manilkara'' is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae. They are widespread in tropical and semitropical locations, in Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Australia, and Latin America, as well as various islands in the Pacific and in the Caribbean. A close relative is the genus ''Pouteria''. Trees of this genus yield edible fruit, useful wood, and latex. The best-known species are '' M. bidentata'' (''balatá''), '' M. chicle'' (chicle) and '' M. zapota'' (sapodilla). ''M. hexandra'' is the floral emblem of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province in Thailand, where it is known as ''rayan''. ''M. obovata'' shares the vernacular name of African pear with another completely different species, '' Dacryodes edulis'', and neither should be confused with '' Baillonella toxisperma'', known by the very similar name, African pearwood. The generic name, ''Manilkara'', is derived from ''manil-kara'', a vernacular name for '' M. kauki'' in Malayalam. ''Manilkara'' trees are often significant, or even do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimusops Elengi
''Mimusops elengi'' is a medium-sized evergreen tree found in tropical forests in South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Australia. English common names include Spanish cherry,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. medlar, and bullet wood. Its timber is valuable, the fruit is edible, and it is used in traditional medicine. As the trees give thick shade and flowers emit fragrance, it is a prized collection of gardens. Its flower is the provincial flower of Yala Province, Thailand, as well as the city flower of Ampang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Tree description Bullet wood is an evergreen tree reaching a height of about . It flowers in April, and fruiting occurs between June and October. The leaves are glossy, dark green, oval-shaped, long, and wide. The flowers are cream, hairy, and scented. The fruits are fleshy, ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimusops Caffra
''Mimusops caffra'' (coastal red milkwood, af, Kusrooimelkhout, xh, Umthunzi, Sepedi: ''Mmupudu,'' zu, Umkhakhayi) is a species of tree in family Sapotaceae. This tree is found in coastal dune vegetation in Southern Africa from the Eastern Cape, through KwaZulu-Natal to southern Mozambique. Description ''Mimusops caffra'' is a small to medium-sized tree. The stem is up to in diameter, often gnarled or twisted with dark grey bark which is wrinkled longitudinally.Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (2005). These trees may reach Pooley, E. (1993). ''The Complete Field Guide to Trees of Natal, Zululand and Transkei''. in height, but are shorter on the seaward side of the dunes World Wildlife Fund Staff. (2008). WWF Full Report: Maputaland coastal forest mosaic (AT0119). where they rarely exceed 5m tall and where the foliage suffers under salt spray and sea winds. It may be dominant in sheltered dune forest behind the littoral zone, where it can reach in height with some protection from the salt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planchonella Australis
''Pouteria australis'', also known by the synonym ''Planchonella australis'', is a medium to tall rainforest tree of the family Sapotaceae native to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It is known by the common name black apple, wild plum, yellow buttonwood, black plum and yellow bulletwood. Floyd, Alexander G., ''Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia'', Inkata Press 2008, pp. 406-07. Description ''Pouteria australis'' grows as a tree reaching a maximum height of , with a fluted trunk up to diameter, with rough brown bark. The leaves are simple, measuring 8–16 cm long and 2–5 cm wide, thick and leathery. The upper surface is shiny, lower surface paler green. They taper somewhat at the apex and base, rendering a somewhat diamond-shape. The flowers are generally axillary. Resembling plums in appearance, the edible fruit are 20–65 mm long, purplish or black, containing 2–5 brown and shiny seeds, 2 cm long. They ripen from September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pouteria Pallida
''Pouteria pallida'' is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is found in Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian .... References pallida Endangered plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Charles Baehni Taxa named by Karl Friedrich von Gaertner {{Sapotaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sideroxylon Salicifolium
''Sideroxylon salicifolium'', commonly called white bully or willow bustic, is a species of flowering plant native to Florida, the West Indies and Central America. It has also been considered a member of the genus ''Dipholis'', with the binomial ''Dipholis salicifolia''. It is a small tree, 10–20 m tall, with smooth beige bark, spirally arranged leaves and small (1–4 mm) cream-coloured flowers borne in clusters of five to 12. The fruit is a small berry A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit. Typically, berries are juicy, rounded, brightly colored, sweet, sour or tart, and do not have a stone or pit, although many pips or seeds may be present. Common examples are strawberries, raspb ... (6–10 mm long) with between one and three seeds. As it ripens, the fruit turns from green to reddish brown and then to dark brown when it is mature. References salicifolium Trees of the Southeastern United States Trees of Mexico Trees of Central America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planchonella Myrsinoides
''Pouteria myrsinoides'' is an Australian tree in the family Sapotaceae. The common names include yellow plumwood, axe-handle wood and blunt-leaved coondoo. It occurs in seaside rainforests and drier rainforests from the Forster, New South Wales to the Lakeland Downs in tropical Queensland. The subspecies ''reticulata'' occurs on Lord Howe Island and in New Caledonia. It is a small tree up to 12 metres tall with a stem diameter of 25 cm. The leaves are 2 to 10 cm long and 1 to 4 cm wide. Flowering occurs between May and November, sometimes as early as February. The fruit is a thin fleshed, purple/black berry, 1.5 to 3 cm long, containing one to three seeds. The specific epithet ''myrsinoides'' refers to a similarity of the leaves of certain plants in the genus Myrsine ''Myrsine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. It was formerly placed in the family Myrsinaceae before this was merged into the Primulaceae. It is found nearly worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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