Cloudbridge Nature Reserve

Trees of Cloudbridge

Spathodea campanulata Spathodea campanulata (Local name(s), English name(s))

Description: [major features]

Natural history: [natural history and ecology features including relations with mammals, birds, insects, epiphytes and vines, other trees, growing conditions, seasonal changes, etc]

Distribution: [where found in general, in the Chirripo area, and on Cloudbridge} 

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 [example]
Class: Magnoliopsida [example]
Order: Rosales [example]
Family: Ulmaceae [example]
Species: Ulmus mexicana (Liebm.) Planch (alt. name Chaetoptelea mexicana) [example]


Photo Identification Guide: Ulmus mexicana (Tirrá, Mexican elm)
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: [this is a temporary section for unformatted information that will be used in one of the other sections and then deleted]




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