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Cussonia spicata (spiked cabbage tree)

Synonyms: Cussonia boivinii; Cussonia calophylla; Cussonia kraussii; Cussonia quercifolia; Cussonia triptera

Wikipedia Abstract

Cussonia spicata (known as spiked cabbage tree, lowveld cabbage tree or common cabbage tree) is a tree in the Araliaceae family, which is native to the moister regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is cultivated as a garden plant in areas without extreme degrees of frost. It is one of the favorite foods of wild elephants.
View Wikipedia Record: Cussonia spicata

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.445
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
East Usambara Biosphere Reserve 222395 Tanzania  
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Mount Kulal Biosphere Reserve 1729738 Kenya  

Predators

Ceroplastes destructor (soft wax scale)[3]
Delottococcus aberiae[3]
Furchadaspis zamiae (cycad scale)[3]
Parasaissetia nigra (nigra scale)[4]
Pulvinarisca inopheron[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0