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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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Species
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CASTILLA ELASTICA Cerv.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gac. Lit. Mexico, Suppl. 7. 1794.
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Synonym
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Castilla panamensis Cook, in Science, n. ser. 18:438. 1903.
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Description
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Trees 5-10 m. tall, the young branches densely hirsute with spreading (less frequently appressed) golden hairs, eventually glabrate. Leaves oblong-obovate, more or less cordate and usually not strongly inequilateral at the base, subcuspidate- acuminate at the tip, 20-30 cm. long, 10-14 cm. broad, membranaceous, minutely and closely ciliate-denticulate, both surfaces golden spreading-hirsute but par- ticularly beneath, the petioles about 1 cm. long; stipules 3-6 cm. long. Inflores- cences in clusters of 2-4 in catenate series of the upper leaf-axils, occasionally solitary. Staminate heads conduplicate-reniform, about 1.5 cm. long and 2 cm. broad, the peduncle about 1 cm. long. Fruiting heads thickly discoid, 4-5 cm. in diameter, about 1.5 cm. thick, sessile or subsessile, the component flowers half or more coherent, developing an orange or reddish pulp at maturity.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico to Colombia and perhaps southward; in moist forests at low elevations.
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Common
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Ule-ule hule
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Common
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caucho mastate blanco
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Laguna de Chiriqui, Hart I40; Chiriquicito, Seibert 155i; Punta Rovalo, Seibert if66; Almirante, Seibert 1574; Fruit Dale Farm, Seibert if586, 1587, If588. CANAL ZONE: old site of Gorgona, Maxon 6783; Las Cascadas Plantation, Standley 25697, 29497, Cook & Martin 46; Ancon Hospital grounds, Maxon 6769, Gaillard s. n. COCLE: El Valle de Anton, Allen 3625. DARIEN: along Sambu' River, Pittier 5526; Boca de Pau- arando, Pittier 57I4. PANAMA: Rio Tapia, Standley 28048, 26i86, 26I77; Juan Dias region, Maxon & Harvey 6748; Arraijain, Maxon & Cook 7032, 7033; Rio Tecumen, Standley 29374; Tumba Muerto Road, near Panama', Standley 298I8.
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Note
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This species has been of more than passing interest to economic botanists for nearly two centuries, but has never become of commercial value.
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