Lysiloma sabicu

Botanical Description

Lysiloma sabicu is a semideciduous shrub or a small tree with a short bole that can be 60 - 90cm in diameter[ 316 Title Tropical Timbers of the World. Ag. Handbook No. 607. Publication Author Chudnoff. Martin. Publisher USDA Forest Service. Wisconsin. Year 1984 ISBN Description Terse details on the properties of the wood of almost 400 species of trees from the Tropics. ]. When growing in woodland it can be a tree up to 12 metres tall, though it is also found as a shrub, flowering when no more than 1 metre tall[ 1522 Title Silk Tree, Guanacaste, monkey's Earing: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas Publication Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden Vol 74 Part 1 pp 1-292, 1996 Author Barneby R.C. Publisher The New York Botanical Garden; New York Year 1996 ISBN 0-89327-395-3 Description A detailed treatment of several genera of the Mimosaceae found in N. America and the Caribbean ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for its good quality timber, which has been exported for cabinet making in the past. It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental in Florida[ 1522 Title Silk Tree, Guanacaste, monkey's Earing: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas Publication Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden Vol 74 Part 1 pp 1-292, 1996 Author Barneby R.C. Publisher The New York Botanical Garden; New York Year 1996 ISBN 0-89327-395-3 Description A detailed treatment of several genera of the Mimosaceae found in N. America and the Caribbean ].