Herbarium Sheet Detail
NTBG Plant Name:
Couroupita guianensis
Collector Name:
Tim Flynn
Collection Date:
November 22, 2002
Determiner:
David H. Lorence 5/31/07
Island Group:
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Locality:
Lawai Valley. National Tropical Botanical Garden. Big Valley near Native Hawaiian section tool shed.
Plant Description:
Group of 4 trees, no accession data available, to 25 ft tall; lvs clustered at branch tips, glossy med green w/ yellow green veins, below paler; flowers & fruit borne along main branches & trunk, long, ± pendant; flowers intensely fragrant (10.30); tepals waxy yellow w/ rose base & margins, within matte rose w/ white base; staminodes purplish w/ yellow apex; fruit rough, brown w/ six dark brown "glands" 1/3-½ dwon fruit; at least 6 carpellate, seeds embedded in stinky-sweet flesh.
From Cultivated Plant:
Yes
Ancillary: Carpological:
Yes
Habitat:
Secondary vegetation.
Associated Species:
W/ Justicia, Psidium, Samanea, Panicum, Melia, Schinus and Syzygium.
Date of Record Creation:
August 9, 2011
Date of Last Update:
August 6, 2023
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