Ebenaceae FAMILY

Diospyros hebecarpa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Diospyros hebecarpa is a tree with a dark, compact crown; it can vary considerable in height, from 7 - 25 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be free of branches for up to 15 metres in the largest specimens and up to 40cm in diameter[ 388 Title Guide to the Trees of Papua New Guinea Publication Author Conn. B.J. & Damas. K.Q. Website http://www.pngplants.org/PNGtrees/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An Internet site giving good descriptions of the trees of Papua New Guinea. , 721 Title Commercial Woods of the Philippines; Their Preparation and Uses Publication Philippines Bureau of Forestry Bulletin No. 14 Author Schneider E.E. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Bureau of Forestry; Manilla. Year 1916 ISBN Description A series of booklets dealing with various aspects of the Philippine forests. This volume looks at the preparation and uses of the commercial woods of the Philippines. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of wood. The wood is sometimes traded.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeSoutheast Asia - Indonesia, Philippines, to New Guinea, northern Australia, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia.

HabitatMixed secondary forest[ 658 Title Food Plants of Papua New Guinea Publication Author French. B.R. Publisher Author. Year 2006 ISBN Description Published on-line in PDF format, this book contains information on several hundred New Guinea food plants. ]. Drier types of rain forest and monsoon forest at elevations up to 600 metres in Australia, where it is most common in gallery forests[ 713 Title Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An online resource giving botanical information, and a little bit about plant usage, for over 2,700 species of plants found in the Australian rainforest. ].