Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Licania persaudii

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Licania persaudii is a tree with a heavy crown growing up to 30 metres tall. The bole is unbuttressed, usually cylindrical, around 40 - 60cm in diameter and unbranched for up to 18 metres[ 378 Title Present and Potential Commercial Timbers of the Caribbean Publication USDA Agricultural Handbook No. 207 Author Longwood.F.R. Publisher USDA Forest Service; Washington, DC. Year 1962 ISBN Description Quite detailed information on more than 60 species of Caribbean timber trees, giving species descriptions, habitat, detailed info on the wood and some info on other uses. Available for download on the internet. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild as a local source of wood and medicines. It is also harvested commercially for its timber, which is exported.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeNorthern S. America - Guyana, French Guiana.

HabitatA canopy tree in rainforests, especially on lateritic soils[ 378 Title Present and Potential Commercial Timbers of the Caribbean Publication USDA Agricultural Handbook No. 207 Author Longwood.F.R. Publisher USDA Forest Service; Washington, DC. Year 1962 ISBN Description Quite detailed information on more than 60 species of Caribbean timber trees, giving species descriptions, habitat, detailed info on the wood and some info on other uses. Available for download on the internet. ]. Primary forests[ 734 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 1. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 9: 1-319 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 56832 4 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. ].