Accession Data

Cecropia peltata

Common Name: Trumpet Tree, Snakewood Tree

Family: Urticaceae

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.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10-11

Accession #: 198500704

Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1211

Quantity: 1

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: eurosid I

Order: Rosales

Family: Urticaceae

Tribe: Cecropieae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. California Rare Fruit Growers Web Site
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
  4. Cecropia peltata at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
  5. Cecropia Ants at Marietta College. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
  6. 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.
  7. Azteca Ants Protect Cecropia Trees at Morning Earth. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.

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