Lauraceae FAMILY

Ocotea pulchella

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ocotea pulchella is a semideciduous tree with an open, more or less globose crown; it can grow 20 - 30 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be 50 - 80cm in diameter[ 419 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 1. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-17-8 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 harvested from the wild for local medicinal use and for its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Argentina, Paraguay, southern, central and eastern Brazil.

HabitatCoastal and Atlantic rainforests, Araucaria forests and higher elevation forests and savannah[ 419 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 1. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-17-8 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. ].