Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Rosales > Urticaceae > Cecropia > Cecropia obtusifolia

Cecropia obtusifolia (guarumo; trumpet tree)

Synonyms: Ambaiba costaricensis; Cecropia mexicana f. glabrescens; Cecropia mexicana var. macrostachya; Cecropia radlkoferiana

Wikipedia Abstract

Cecropia obtusifolia is a species of plant in the Urticaceae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama. Common Names include trumpet tree, pop-a-gun, tree-of-laziness, and snakewood tree. In Central America it is known as Guarumo. Though impressive silhouetted against the sky, it is an invasive species in the islands of Hawaii.
View Wikipedia Record: Cecropia obtusifolia

Infraspecies

Cecropia obtusifolia burriada
Cecropia obtusifolia obtusifolia

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [4]  0.43
Structure [1]  Tree
Fruit Color [3]  Green

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barbilla National Park II 29582 Costa Rica  
Corcovado National Park 115845 Costa Rica  
Guanacaste National Park II 85819 Costa Rica  
Tortuguero National Park II 47632 Costa Rica

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Tropical Fruit-Eating Birds and Their Food Plants: A Survey of a Costa Rican Lower Montane Forest, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, William A. Haber, K. Greg Murray, Carlos Guindon, Biotropica Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 173-192
♦ 4WOOD SPECIFIC GRAVITY IN SPECIES FROM TWO TROPICAL FORESTS IN MEXICO, Josefina Barajas-Morales, IAWA Bulletin n.s., Vol. 8 (2), 1987 143-148
♦ 5Feeding and General Activity Patterns of a Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) Troop Living in a Forest Fragment at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, Alejandro Estrada, Saúl Juan-Solano, Teresita Ortíz Martínez and Rosamond Coates-Estrada, American Journal of Primatology 48:167-183 (1999)
♦ 6Food niche overlap among neotropical frugivorous bats in Costa Rica, Jorge E. Lopez & Christopher Vaughan, Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 55 (1): 301-313, March 2007
♦ 7Choloepus hoffmanni (Pilosa: Megalonychidae), VIRGINIA HAYSSEN, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(873):37–55 (2011)
♦ 8HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 9Jorrit 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.
♦ 10Dieta y dispersión de semillas por dos especies de Tangara (Habia) en dos tipos de vegetación en los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, México, Fernando Puebla-Olivares & Kevin Winker, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 15: 53–64, 2004
♦ 11Philander opossum, Iván Castro-Arellano, Heliot Zarza, and Rodrigo A. Medellín, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 638, pp. 1–8 (2000)
♦ 12del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 13Proyecto Tití
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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