Alvaradoa amorphoides
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Mexican Alvaradoa
Picramniaceae
Plant Specifics
Form: | Tree | |
Size: | 10-20(35) ft tall by usually taller than broad | |
Life Span: | Long-lived perennial | |
Flower Color: | White,yellow,green | |
Fruit Color: | White,red | |
Phenology: | Evergreen | |
Noted for: | Showy flowers, Showy fruits |
Landscaping
Recommended Uses: | An excellent accent shrub or small tree with open, spreading crown. Attractive fine textured, thin leaves and long, hanging spikes of flowers. Dioecious with male and female flowers on separate plants. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Considerations: | This is a beautiful small tree that is rarely cultivated.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Propagation: | Probably wind pollinated. Seed, but not all seeds will be viable. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Availability: | FNPS plant sales, Specialty providers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Light: | Full Sun, Part Shade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moisture Tolerance: |
always floodedextremely dry |
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(Usually moist, occasional inundation ----- to ----- Somewhat long very dry periods) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moisture Tolerance: | Usually moist, occasional inundation ----- to ----- Somewhat long very dry periods | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: | Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance: | Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soil or other substrate: | Humus (organic, upland), Lime rock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ecology
Wildlife: |
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Insects: | Larval host for dina yellow (Eurema dina) and cassius blue (Leptotes cassius theonus) butterflies. | |
Native Habitats: | Rockland hammock edges |
Distribution and Planting Zones
Natural Range in Florida
USDA Zones
Suitable to grow in:
10A 10B 11

USDA zones are based on minimum winter temperatures
Comments
General Comments: | This is listed as an ENDANGERED by the State of Florida |