Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Sapindales > Burseraceae > Bursera > Bursera tecomaca

Bursera tecomaca (sea torchwood; torchwood)

Synonyms:

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Bursera tecomaca

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Indeterminate
Drought Tolerance [1]  High
Frost Free Days [1]  1 year
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Year Round
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Year Round
Growth Form [1]  Single Crown
Growth Period [1]  Fall
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Bare Root, Container, Seed
Root Depth [1]  36 inches (91 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Shape/Orientation [1]  Rounded
Specific Gravity [3]  0.97
Structure [2]  Tree
Flower Color [1]  White
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Purple
Flower Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [1]  16.072 feet (4.9 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 8 Low Temperature: 10 F° (-12.2 C°) → 20 F° (-6.7 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Infertile
Water Use [1]  Low
Screening - Summer [1]  Porous
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Buenavista Wetland Reserve 778949 Cuba    
Ciénaga de Zapata National Park 1606900 Cuba  
Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge   Puerto Rico, United States
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve II 4859 Cuba  

Predators

Agonopterix amyrisella[4]
Eucatagma amyrisella[4]
Papilio aristodemus (Swallowtail)[4]
Papilio cresphontes (Orange-dog swallowtail)[4]
Philephedra tuberculosa[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