Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Polygonaceae > Coccoloba > Coccoloba swartzii

Coccoloba swartzii (Swartz's pigeonplum)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Coccoloba swartzii f. swartzii
Coccoloba swartzii f. urbaniana

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  Low
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Carbon Capture [1]  Low
Screening - Summer [2]  Dense
Shade Percentage [1]  83 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Medium-Low
Wind Reduction [1]  Medium-Low
Bloom Period [2]  Summer
Fire Tolerance [2]  Medium
Frost Free Days [2]  1 year
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Spring
Growth Form [2]  Single Crown
Growth Period [2]  Spring
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Propagation [2]  Seed
Root Depth [2]  36 inches (91 cm)
Seeds Per [2]  8069 / lb (17789 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Rounded
Specific Gravity [4]  0.7
Structure [3]  Tree
Flower Color [2]  Green
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Green
Height [1]  34 feet (10.4 m)
Width [1]  30 feet (9.1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 11 Low Temperature: 40 F° (4.4 C°) → 50 F° (10 C°)
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Water Use [1]  Moderate

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Luquillo Biosphere Reserve 8617 Puerto Rico, United States  

Predators

Crenulaspidiotus dicentron[5]
Eunebristis zingarella[6]
Melanaspis coccolobae[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jérôme 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
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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