Trees of Cloudbridge

Guarea kunthiana (Common name unknown)

Description:

Natural history:

Distribution: South and central America. Found in lowland as well as montane tropical moist forest. Primary forest species. Planted on Cloudbridge in 2003.

How to recognize:

Uses: The juice of the crushed bark of this tree is used in Ecuador in the treatment of malaria. It is also used to treat post-natal depression and reputed to be good for the treatment of asthma.

Sources and Links:
INBio description
SysTax
and others

Scientific Information:

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Sapindales

Family: Meliaceae

Species: Guarea kunthiana A. Juss.

Photo Identification Guide: Guarea kunthiana (...)

Leaves. Leaves are ...

Flowers.

Fruit and Seeds. Fruits are

Trunk.

Form.

Saplings. Seedlings and saplings grown in our nursery and planted chiefly as replacements for dead saplings in 2003

Other. Twigs, etc ... .

Notes/Notas:
Guarea kunthiana
    Family: Meliaceae
Common name: cocora
Habitat: common in mature cloud forests and swamps
      1500 to 1700m on Pacific slopes and down to 800m on

Atlantic slopes.
Leaves: compound pinnate up to 1 m long with leaflets 10

x 20 cm, glabrous, tip of leaf
      rachis has persistent upturned bud.
Flowers: Mar to Jun, dioecious; 1 cm, cream white with 4

petals curled back from a square    central tube bearing

8 tiny anthers along its inner margin, fragrant; male and

female
      nearly identical.
Fruit: May to Jul, up to 7 cm, yellow-brown, opening with

4 thick leathery valves exposing
      4-8 seeds covered with red arils.

Arbol de 16 m x 30 cm de DAP, ubicado en
bosque, primario, de corteza marrón algo
esfoliante. Frutos abundantes, agrupados
café amarillento con muchas lenticelas
blancas.

Tree 25 m. Fruits brown 3.5-4 cm long,
3.5 cm diam., 4 valvate splitling to
2 seeds, 1 locule, seeds with a thin
orange aril. Leaves imparipennate.
Ollas Trail

Tree 17 m. Flowers light, yellow-cream.
Occasional.

Tree, 15 m. Leaves compound, glossy,
bicolorous. Fruits green, ovoid, often
with the dried reimains of the flower
at the base.

Tree 45 m. Flowers cream with slight
purplish shading at the base of the
petals; fruits woody, brown capsules.

Arbol de 20 m x 30 cm DAP. Fuste
cilíndrico. Frutos verdes. Madera tiene
olor muy dulce.

Arbol de 15 m x 30 cm DAP; frutos
verde rojizo.

Cordillera de Talamanca.
Unbranched understory treelet ca. 2.5 m
tall. Lvs. thickish, semiglossy above,
paler below. Fls. whitish.

Fruits tinged
pale red.

Tree branching into two trunks near
ground, these 15 and 12.2 cm dbh. Bark
white, smooth. Fruits borne laterally on
branches where 1-2 cm thick, usually
well back from leaves. Infructescence a
7-10 cm long raceme with 5 mm diam.

Understorey tree. Bark smooth and white.
Mature fruits pinkish orange.

Flor blanca,
muy aromática.

inflorescence axes brownish-green to green; flowers with no remarkable
scent; calyces and flower buds light brown (partially reddish-brown);
corolla outside light brownish, inside whitish-light brown;
filament-tube andstyles white; stigmata whitish-light brown. Flower.

Cloudbridge: Bridging a Costa Rican cloud forest

Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Meliaceae
Species:	Guarea kunthiana A. Juss.