Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Santalales > Cervantesiaceae > Pyrularia > Pyrularia pubera

Pyrularia pubera (buffalo nut)

Synonyms: Hamiltonia oleifera (homotypic); Pyrularia olcifera (homotypic); Pyrularia oleifera

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Hazards [1]  The whole plant, especially the fruit, contains an acrid poisonous oil;
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Shrub
Height [1]  11.48 feet (3.5 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Pyrularia pubera

Protected Areas

Providers

Parasite of 
Abies fraseri (Fraser fir)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Jorrit 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