Sterculia - Wikipedia
Sterculia [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae: subfamily Sterculioideae (previously placed in the now obsolete Sterculiaceae [1]). Members of the genus are colloquially known as tropical chestnuts. Sterculia may be monoecious or dioecious, and its flowers unisexual or bisexual.
Sterculia foetida - Wikipedia
The flowers are arranged in panicles, 10–15 cm (4–6 in) long. The green or purple flowers are large and unisexual as the tree is dioecious (male and female flowers are found on different trees). The pollens are oval in shape, approximately 40 microns in length.
Sterculia urens - Wikipedia
The flowers are yellowish-green and produced in panicles in the axils of the leaves. They are polygamous (having male, female and bisexual flowers on the same tree) and are clad in sticky or glandular short hairs.
National Tropical Botanical Garden | Sterculia foetida - Plant …
The foul smelling flowers are bell-shaped, 5-lobed, yellowish green when they open and later turn deep red. The woody, bright-red fruit consist of 1-5 spreading follicles that are armed with stiff stinging bristles along the inner margins.
Sterculia foetida - Uses, Benefits & Care - Selina Wamucii
Sterculia foetida (also called Fetid Sterculia, among many other common names) is a shrub or small tree that is native to the southeastern United States. It typically grows up to 15 feet tall and has smooth, gray bark. It is found in moist woods, along streams, and in wetland areas.
Sterculia foetida (Java olive) | CABI Compendium - CABI Digital …
Sterculia is a pantropical genus with about 200 species (Flora of Panama, 2017). S. foetida is an attractive, umbrella-shaped deciduous tree that can reach a height of 40 m; it is harvested from the wild for food, fodder, medicinal use and timber.
Sterculia lanceolata Cav. - World Flora Online
Female flowers with 5 free carpels, each globose, hairy, 5–6 ovuled; styles cohering, hairy; stigmas with 5 reflexed lobes. Follicle (2–3–)5, oblong, narrowed at both ends, leathery, pubescent; 4–8 x 1.5–2 cm, curved upwards, red or dark brown.
Sterculia foetida - NParks
Growth Form: Large deciduous tree with horizontal, whorled branches. Habitat: Occurs in semi-open tropical forests and coastal areas. Trunk: Straight trunk has smooth, grey to whitish outer bark and fibrous inner bark. Foliage: Palmately compound leaves …
Sterculia foetida - Monaco Nature Encyclopedia
2018年2月22日 · The Sterculia foetida L. (1753) is a great deciduous tree, up to 40 m tall, with erect trunk with greyish bark and almost horizontal branches arranged in verticils (3 or more inserted on the same node). The leaves, grouped at the apex of the branches on a 10-30 cm long petiole, are palmate-compound with 5-9 leaflets from elliptic to lanceolate ...
Sterculia foetida L. - World Flora Online
Female flowers with 5 free carpels, each ovate, hairy, with ca 20-ovules; styles cohering, ca 5 mm long, hairy; stigmas 5 lobes or flattened. Follicles (3–)5 kidney-shaped, woody, brick-red and glabrous at maturity, 8–10 x 6–9 cm, dehiscing.