Base de datos de plantas del FNPS

Picramnia pentandra

Florida bitterbush
  • Photo by: Shirley Denton, Suncoast Chapter FNPS

Nomenclatura

Nombre común:

Florida bitterbush

Sinónimo(s):

Especie del género:

Picramnia pentandra

Familia:

Picramniaceae

Especificaciones de la planta

Forma:

shrub

Tamaño:

10-15 ft tall by about 5 ft wide.

Esperanza de vida:

Long-lived perennial

Color de la flor:

white

Color de la fruta:

red

Fenología:

evergreen

Destacado por:

Interesting Foliage

Paisajismo

Usos recomendados:

Useful as a grouped planting or potentially a small specimen tree or large shrub.

Consideraciones:

Disponibilidad:

Native Nurseries

Propagación:

Seed

Luz:

Full Sun, Part Sun

Tolerancia a la humedad:

Siempre inundado---------------------------------Extremadamente seco

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Usually moist, occasional inundation -a- Very long very dry periods

Tolerancia a inundaciones por agua salada:

Unknown

Tolerancia a la niebla salina/suelo salado:

Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray

Suelo u otro sustrato:

pH del suelo:

Acidic to neutral

Apto para cultivo en:

10A,10B,11

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Acreditado en:

Distribution
Vouchered
Not vouchered
Selected
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Starting…
Map coded by Melissa Fernandez-de Cespedes (Paynes Prairie Chapter)

Ecología

Fauna:

Pollinators, Caterpillars, Birds

Larval host for the bush sulphur butterfly, Urema dina helios





Attracts generalist pollinators.

Birds eat the seed. 





Dispersal is by birds and gravity.

Hábitats nativos:

Tropical rockland hammock.

Área de distribución natural en Florida:

Comentarios:

Etnobotánica:

Used as a tonic.

Comentarios generales:

Listed as Endangered by the FDACS.  Please acquire only from reputable sources that have any needed permits.



This has been known to escape outside of its range when cultivated.  

FNPS Plant Print

Citas:

Chafin, L. G. (2000). Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, FL.


de Figueiredo, Rodolfo & Sazima, Marlies. (2007). Phenology and Pollination Biology of Eight Peperomia Species (Piperaceae) in Semideciduous Forests in Southeastern Brazil. Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany). 9. 136-141. 10.1055/s-2006-924543. --- pollination


Haehle, Robert G. and Joan Brookwell. (1999). Native Florida Plants. Gulf Publishing Company. Houston, TX.


Osorio, Rufino. (2001). A Gardener's Guide to Florida's Native Plants. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.


Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. (1999+). Atlas of Florida Plants. ( https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/ ). [S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), USF Water Institute.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.

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