Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Couepia ulei

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Couepia ulei is a shrub or a tree with a spreading crown; it can grow up to 15 metres tall. The fairly straight, cylindrical bole can be 20 - 35cm in diameter and unbranched for 3 - 10 metres[ 453 Title Woods of Northeastern Peru Publication Author Williams L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Publisher Field Museum Press; Chicago. Year 1936 ISBN Description Gives information on the properties of the wood of well over 1,000 species of woody plants from northeastern Peru. Can be downloaded from the Internet. , 735 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 19: 1-268 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56833 2 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela.

HabitatLowland forests, sometimes growing in humid loam close to streams, but more often in flood-free areas[ 453 Title Woods of Northeastern Peru Publication Author Williams L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Publisher Field Museum Press; Chicago. Year 1936 ISBN Description Gives information on the properties of the wood of well over 1,000 species of woody plants from northeastern Peru. Can be downloaded from the Internet. ].