Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Laurales > Lauraceae > Ocotea > Ocotea leucoxylon

Ocotea leucoxylon (loblolly sweetwood)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Late Spring
Fire Tolerance [1]  Medium
Frost Free Days [1]  1 year
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Year Round
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Year Round
Growth Period [1]  Spring
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Root Depth [1]  36 inches (91 cm)
Seeds Per [1]  1988 / lb (4383 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Rounded
Specific Gravity [3]  0.46
Structure [2]  Tree
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Foliage Color [1]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [1]  Black
Height [1]  70 feet (21.3 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Soil Fertility [1]  Intermediate
Screening - Summer [1]  Dense
Screening - Winter [1]  Dense

Protected Areas

Predators

Deuterollyta majuscula[4]
Howardia biclavis (mining scale)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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