Fabaceae FAMILY

Machaerium fulvovenosum

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Machaerium fulvovenosum is a semideciduous tree with a narrow, elongate crown; it can grow 4 - 15 metres tall. The normally crooked bole can be 15 - 25cm 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. ]. At times the plant can become more shrub-like with branches that can scramble into the surrounding vegetation. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - eastern Brazil.

HabitatAtlantic rainforest, in both dense primary forest and the more open, secondary formations, in valley bottoms and by rivers; favouring moist, fertile, humus-rich, clayey soils[ 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. ].