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Trema micrantha (L.) Bl.

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Trema micrantha , as interpreted here, is widespread in tropical regions of the New World. Small-leaved populations may be confused with T . lamarckiana .

The soft wood of Trema micrantha is suitable for the construction of tea chests and match sticks.

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Description

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Shrubs to small trees , 2-5.5(-10) m. Bark dark brown, smooth when young, developing small, warty projections in maturity. Branchlets copiously pubescent. Leaf blade ovate to narrowly ovate, 5-6.5(-9) × 2.5-4(-4.5) cm, base oblique to cordate, margins evenly serrate, apex acute to long-acuminate; abaxial surface softly, velvety white-pubescent; venation conspicuous but scarcely raised. Flowers: calyx greenish white. Fruits bright red-orange to yellow, 1.5-3.5 mm diam. 2 n = 20 (from Costa Rica).
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Distribution

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Fla.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America.
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Flowering most of year (Mar-Nov).
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Habitat

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Hammocks and prairies, often weedy along roadsides, in burned areas, and on calcareous ground; 0-100m.
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Synonym

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Rhamnus micranthus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 937. 1759; Celtis micranthus (Linnaeus) Swartz; Sponia micrantha (Linnaeus) Decaisne; Trema floridana Britton; Trema melinona Blume; Trema micrantha var. floridana (Britton) Standley & Steyermark
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Trema micrantha

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Trema micrantha, the Jamaican nettletree[2] or capulin,[3] is a plant species native to warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere. It has been reported from Mexico, Central America, tropical South America, the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and southern Florida.[4][5]

Description

Trema micrantha is a shrub or small tree up to 10 m tall. Leaves are egg-shaped, up to 9 cm long, green on top but covered with white, woolly pubescence underneath. Flowers are greenish-white. Fruits are yellow to bright reddish-range, up to 4 mm in diameter. [4][6][7]

Uses

Following the recent local extirpation of slow-growing xalama in San Pablito, Mexico due to unsustainable harvesting driven by tourism, the Otomi people now use Trema micrantha bark strips as a raw material for making handmade amate paper.[8]

References

  1. ^ The Plant List, Trema micrantha"
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Trema micratha". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Trema micrantha". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  4. ^ a b Flora of North America vol 3 Trema micrantha'
  5. ^ Tropicos, Trema micrantha, distribution
  6. ^ Blume, Carl (Karl) Ludwig von. 1856. Museum botanicum Lugduno-Batavum, sive, Stirpium exoticarum novarum vel minus cognitarum ex vivis aut siccis brevis expositio et descriptio 2: 58.
  7. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1759. Systema Naturae, Editio Decima 2: 937.
  8. ^ Peters, C. M., Rosenthal, J., & Urbina, T. (1987). Otomi bark paper in Mexico: commercialization of a pre-hispanic technology. Economic Botany, 41(3), 423-432.
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Trema micrantha: Brief Summary

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Trema micrantha, the Jamaican nettletree or capulin, is a plant species native to warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere. It has been reported from Mexico, Central America, tropical South America, the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and southern Florida.

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