Economic Botany Collections

Catalogue number:

45487

Botanical classification:

LAURACEAE Acrodiclidium ita-uba

Common name(s):

Stone Tree, Ita-Uba

Geographical description:

Brazil. Para, Santarem

Collector number:

Collection date:

Donor:

Spruce, Richard

Donation date:

12/12/1850

Dimensions (cm):

Length:

Width:

Depth:

Diameter:

113.0

30.0

4.0

Richard Spruce's Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (1855), p. 61:

A noble clean growing tree with rather scaly back, slightly tinged with red, which gives the trunk the aspect of that of Scotch Fir. As in many cannels both bark and wood have a fine scent enduring many years.