Saurauia
montana (Moco,
snot tree) How to recognize: [main features of shape, location, bark, leaves, flowers and fruit that help with eyeball recognition, and specific features that help to distinguish this tree from others]
Uses: [Whetherand how the wood is used, medicinal uses, role in farms and plantations, endangered status]
Sources and Links:
INBio description
SysTax
and others
Scientific Information:
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Theales |
| Family: | Actinideae |
| Species: | Saurauia montana Seem. |
| Leaves. Leaves are ... |
| Flowers. Flowers are ... |
| Fruit and Seeds. Fruits are |
Pictures go
here |
| Trunk. The trunk is ... |
| Form. The shape of the tree ... | Pictures go
here |
| Saplings. Seedlings and saplings ... |
| Other. Twigs, etc ... | pictutres go here |
| Notes/Notas: aurauia montana Family: Actinidiaceae (actinidia and kiwi fruit family) Common name: snot tree A small tree 3 to 10 m. Habitat: Common in open areas up to 1550 m. Leaves: 8 x 30 cm, obovate (widest above middle), spiraled, margin with sharp teeth, rough- pubescent. Flowers: dioecious, 5 to 12 flowers on inflorescence, each 2-cm flower has 5 white petals And many orange stamens attached in a ring, the woolly ovary has 5 styles present in female flowers, absent in males. Fruit: soft, pubescent, green capsule to 2 cm, opening with 5 valves to expose tiny brown seeds embedded in a slimy jelly-like matrix. One often finds slime and seeds dripping from the open fruits (thus the common name). |