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Casearia guidonia (American muskwood)

Synonyms: Casearia brevipes (heterotypic); Samyda guidonia (homotypic)

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Spring
Fire Tolerance [1]  Medium
Frost Free Days [1]  1 year
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Summer
Growth Period [1]  Fall
Growth Rate [1]  Slow
Janka Hardness [3]  720 lbf (327 kgf) Soft
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Seed
Root Depth [1]  24 inches (61 cm)
Seeds Per [1]  4607 / lb (10157 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Specific Gravity [4]  0.61
Structure [2]  Tree
Flower Color [1]  White
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Flower Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [1]  9.84 feet (3 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Intermediate
Screening - Summer [1]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [1]  Moderate

Protected Areas

Predators

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
♦ 3Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 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
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7{Structural and Taxonomic Components of Habitat Selection in the Neotropical Folivore Lamponius portoricensis (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae), Michael R. Willig, Elizabeth A. Sandlin and Michael R. Gannon, Environmental Entomology Vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 634-641 (June 1993)
♦ 8Avian fruit preferences across a Puerto Rican forested landscape: pattern consistency and implications for seed removal, Tomás A. Carlo, Jaime A. Collazo and Martha J. Groom, Oecologia (2003) 134:119–131
♦ 9DIET OF THE YELLOW-KNOBBED CURASSOW IN THE CENTRAL VENEZUELAN LLANOS, CAROLINA BERTSCH AND GUILLERMO R. BARRETO, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120(4):767–777, 2008
♦ 10Feeding 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
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