Accession #: 198500704
Accession Date: 1985-12-31
Common name: Trumpet Tree, Snakewood Tree
Family: Urticaceae
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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.
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USDA Zone: 10-11
Source: Unknown
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