Calophyllaceae FAMILY

Kielmeyera lathrophyton

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Kielmeyera lathrophyton is an evergreen tree with a roundish, sparse crown; it can grow 8 - 14 metres tall. The cylindrical but usually crooked bole can be 30 - 50cm in diameter[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - eastern Brazil.

HabitatSavannah and woodland savannah, being found mainly in secondary formations in well exposed terrain on slopes and the tops of elevations where the soil is clayey, deep and well-drained[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ].