Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Boraginales > Cordiaceae > Cordia > Cordia gerascanthus

Cordia gerascanthus (yauco)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  None
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Carbon Capture [1]  Low
Shade Percentage [1]  81 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Low
Wind Reduction [1]  Low
Height [1]  21 feet (6.4 m)
Width [1]  19 feet (5.8 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°)
Water Use [1]  Moderate
Janka Hardness [2]  2200 lbf (998 kgf) Hard
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [4]  0.75
Structure [5]  Tree

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  
Palo Verde National Park II 46190 Costa Rica  
Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve II 4859 Cuba  

Predators

Dysmicoccus probrevipes[6]
Nipaecoccus guazumae[6]
Saissetia coffeae (brown scale)[6]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[7]
Coereba flaveola (Bananaquit)[7]
Urbanus proteus (bean leafroller)[7]

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.
2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
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
5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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