Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Laurales > Lauraceae > Ocotea > Ocotea floribunda

Ocotea floribunda (laurel espada)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Winter
Fire Tolerance [1]  Medium
Frost Free Days [1]  1 year
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Winter
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Spring
Growth Period [1]  Fall
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Seed
Root Depth [1]  36 inches (91 cm)
Seeds Per [1]  3461 / lb (7630 / kg)
Specific Gravity [3]  0.4
Structure [2]  Tree
Flower Color [1]  White
Foliage Color [1]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [1]  Black
Flower Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [1]  50 feet (15.2 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Soil Acidity [1]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [1]  Intermediate
Screening - Summer [1]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [1]  Moderate

Protected Areas

Predators

Aburria aburri (Wattled Guan)[4]
Ramphastos vitellinus (Channel-billed Toucan)[4]
Steatornis caripensis (Oilbird)[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
♦ 4Aguaruna Knowledge of Bird Foraging Ecology: A comparison with scientific data, Kevin Jernigan and Nico Dauphiné, Ethnobotany Research & Applications 6:093-106 (2008)
♦ 5THE DIET OF THE OILBIRD IN VENEZUELA, Carlos Bosque, Rudyard Ramírez & Domingo Rodríguez, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 6: 67-80, 1995
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