Accession Data
Bursera schlechtendalii
Family: Burseraceae
Country of Origin: Central America
Description: Bursera schlechtendalii produces terpenes stored under pressure in networks of canals that run throughout the cortex of stem and in the leaves. When a leaf is broken, it releases abundant resins, which may bathe the leaf surface and often form a squirt that travels for up to 150 cm. Plants vary in the proportion of their leaves that release resins after damage. Larvae of the chrysomelid genus Blepharida can inflict substantial damage to plants because they avoid the squirt response by cutting the leaf veins before consuming the leaves. Nevertheless, resins still protect plants against this insect. 2
Accession Data
Accession #: 201400247
Accession Date: 2014-12-05
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2213
Quantity: 1
Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College
Provenance: ex hort. Smith #2013-47 ex Monaco Index Seminum 2013 #47.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: eurosid II
Order: Sapindales
Family: Burseraceae
References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 10 December 2014.
- Judith X. Becerra 1994. Squirt-Gun Defense in Bursera and the Chrysomelid Counterploy. Ecology 75:1991–1996.
- Beccera, Judith et al; Interactions Between Chemical and Mechanical Defenses in the Plant Genus Bursera and Their Implications for Herbivores; American Zoologist (2001) 41(4): 865-876.
- Bursera schlechtendalii at USDA-GRIN. Last accessed on Thursday, July 28, 2016.
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