Cyrtocarpa procera
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Cyrtocarpa procera is a tree in the sumac family from Mexico . It is known here as Copalillo , Chupandía , Chupandilla , Copalcocote , Maxocote or Chucumpum .
description
Cyrtocarpa procera grows as a small, deciduous tree up to 6–7 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches about 15-25 centimeters. The grayish bark is relatively smooth or flaky.
The alternate and stalked leaves are unpaired pinnate with 7–19 leaflets . The rachis is partly short-winged. The egg-shaped to lanceolate and papery, almost sedentary to sedentary, especially hairy on the underside, have entire margins and usually rounded to pointed.
Cyrtocarpa procera is polygamous diocese . Axillary, short and panicle inflorescences are formed at the branch ends. The unisexual or hermaphrodite, almost sessile, white, very small flowers are five-fold with a double flower envelope . There are 10 stamens available. The multi-chambered ovary is on top with very short, free and distant styluses with small, cephalic scars . There is one fleshy and one bald, notched discus . The female flowers have staminodes, the male flowers have a reduced pestle.
There are small, yellow, 2-3 cm wide and round, almost bare stone fruit with calyx remnants and thinner, tougher formed shell. The brown, relatively smooth, egg-shaped to ellipsoidal and woody, mostly single-seeded stone cores have small seed caps (operculum).
use
The tart, somewhat resinous fruits are edible and popular in Mexico. They are used raw or cooked. The seeds are used medicinally.
A soap can be made from the bark .
The wood is soft, with a strong scent.
literature
- K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. X: Flowering Plants Eudicots , Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-14396-0 , pp. 7, 16, 22, 40.
- Paul C. Standley : Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Vol. 23, Part 1, US Government Printing Office, 1920, pp. 658 f.
- John D. Mitchell, Douglas C. Daly: Cyrtocarpa Kunth (Anacardiaceae) in South America. In: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Vol. 78, No. 1, 1991, pp. 184-189, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
Web links
- Cyrtocarpa procera at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Cyrtocarpa procera at UNIBIO: Unidad de Informática para la Biodiversidad - UNAM (pictures).
- Video on fruit and seeds on YouTube.