Accession Data:
Cecropia peltata L.
- Common Name: Trumpet Tree, Snakewood Tree
- Family: Urticaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Carribean, Tropical America
- Description: A West Indian native, fast-growing, short-lived tree which has large leaves 1' across. The sap yields a latex rubber. Young buds are eaten as a cooked vegetable. The fruit is cylindrical with soft, sweet flesh and many small seeds. The tree is propagated by seed.
A fast growing tree reaching about sixty feet at maturity. The stems of the Trumpet Tree are hollow and sometimes inhabited by biting ants. This tree is dioecious, with female flowers being spiked and yellow. Male flowers are numerous infloresences about two inches long. Trumpet Tree is ornamentaly planted in the tropics.
- USDA Zone: 10-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 198500704
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1211 - AUS:Ground Bed 1 SW
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 02-17-2023
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid I
- Order: Rosales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Urticaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe: Cecropieae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- Ant Plants (myrmecophytes)
- Wind Pollination (anemophily)
- AntU - Learning from the Complex Society of Army Ants & Their Guests
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / Belize / Costa Rica / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Jamaica / Trinidad-Tobago / Brazil North / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Colombia
References (external):
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- California Rare Fruit Growers Web Site
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
- Cecropia peltata at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
- Cecropia Ants at Marietta College. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
- Image #00 (cropped) and #02 (original) by Vojtěch Zavadil (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
- Azteca Ants Protect Cecropia Trees at Morning Earth. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
data regenerated on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:21:19 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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Subfamily
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Subfamily
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Subfamily
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W/C = Wild Collected
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