Antiaris toxicaria - MORACEAE (original) (raw)

Habit :

Large buttressed, deciduous trees up to 50 m tall.

Trunk & Bark :

Bark greyish-white, smooth, pustular lenticels in vertical rows; blaze brownish.

Branches and branchlets :

Young branchlets terete, tomentose, later glabrous.

Exudates :

Latex watery or milky.

Leaves :

Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, stipules small, connate, caducous, leaving scar; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, pubescent; lamina to 6.5-15 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex obtusely acuminate, base rounded or cordate, margin entire or distantly crenulate, young leaves hairy on both sides, later glabrous and scabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-10 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent.

Inflorescence / Flower :

Flowers unisexual; male flowers greenish yellow, in axillary peduncled spikes; female flowers solitary axillary.

Fruit and Seed :

Drupe, fleshy, pyriform or obovoid, scarlet; seed 1.