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Beilschmiedia costaricensis (slugwood)

Synonyms: Beilschmiedia roehliana; Beilschmiedia rohliana; Cryptocarya kostermansiana; Hufelandia costaricensis (homotypic)

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Spring
Frost Free Days [1]  1 year
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Year Round
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Year Round
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Seed
Root Depth [1]  36 inches (91 cm)
Specific Gravity [3]  0.52
Structure [2]  Tree
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Black
Height [1]  90 feet (27.4 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Soil Acidity [1]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [1]  Intermediate

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Guanacaste National Park II 85819 Costa Rica  
Luquillo Biosphere Reserve 8617 Puerto Rico, United States  
Pico Mogote Ecological Reserve II 3698 Cuba  
Rincón de la Vieja National Park II 35068 Costa Rica  

Predators

Aulacorhynchus prasinus (Emerald Toucanet)[4]
Pharomachrus mocinno (Resplendent Quetzal)[4]
Procnias tricarunculatus (Three-wattled Bellbird)[4]

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
♦ 4Tropical Fruit-Eating Birds and Their Food Plants: A Survey of a Costa Rican Lower Montane Forest, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, William A. Haber, K. Greg Murray, Carlos Guindon, Biotropica Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 173-192
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