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Maclura tinctoria (fustictree)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Maclura tinctoria, commonly known as old fustic or dyer's mulberry is a medium to large tree of the Neotropics, from Mexico to Argentina. It produces a yellow dye called fustic primarily known for coloring khaki fabric for U.S. military apparel during World War I. This dye contains the flavonoid morin. The leaves can be used to feed silk worms. Old fustic is not to be confused with young fustic (Rhus cotinus) from southern Europe and Asia, which provides a more fugitive colour.
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Infraspecies

Maclura tinctoria tinctoria
Maclura tinctoria var. tinctoria
Maclura tinctoria var. xanthoxylon

Attributes

Janka Hardness [2]  2570 lbf (1166 kgf) Very Hard
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [4]  0.74
Structure [1]  Tree

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USDA Plant Profile

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Wood Technology Transfer Fact Sheets U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service
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♦ 6Host-plant selection, diet diversity, and optimal foraging in a tropical leafcutting ant, L.L. Rockwood and S.P. Hubbell, Oecologia (Berlin) (1987) 74:55-61
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♦ 8The diet of fruit-eating bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in a small Semideciduous Seasonal Forest remnant in south Brazil, Sandra Bos Mikich, Rev. Bras. Zool. vol.19 no.1 Curitiba Mar. 2002
♦ 9Resource availability, diet and reproduction in Glossophaga longirostris (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in an arid zone of the Venezuelan Andes, Maricela Sosa and Pascual J. Soriano, Journal of Tropical Ecology, 12, pp 805-818 (1996)
♦ 10HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 11Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 12Phyllostomus discolor, Gary G. Kwiecinski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 801, pp. 1–11 (2006)
♦ 13Feeding ecology of the Green-cheeked parakeet (Pyrrhura molinae) in dry forests in western Brazil, Ragusa-Netto, J., Braz. J. Biol., 67(2): 243-249, 2007
♦ 14DISTRIBUTION AND DRY-SEASON ECOLOGY OF PFRIMER'S CONURE PYRRHURA PFRIMERI, WITH A REAPPRAISAL OF BRAZILIAN PYRRHURA "LEUCOTIS", Fábio Olmos, Paulo Martuscelli & Robson Silva e Silva, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 8: 121-132, 1997
♦ 15Proyecto Tití
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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