Clethraceae FAMILY

Clethra scabra

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Clethra scabra is a semideciduous tree with a dense, irregular crown; it can grow 4 - 8 metres tall. The 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. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its wood. It can be grown as a pioneer species for restoring native woodland.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

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

HabitatAtlantic rainforest and higher elevation forests, usually in the more open, secondary formations, favouring moist, compacted soils of poor fertility, usually on slopes[ 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. ].