Nemoca Cimarrona

(Ocotea spathulata)

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Description

Ocotea spathulata is an evergreen tree; it can grow up to 13 metres tall. The bole can be 45cm in diameter with narrow buttresses at the base of larger trees,This tree produces the most unusual and perhaps the most attractively figured commercial wood of Puerto Rico. It has been widely exploited from the wild, to the point where there are few large trees left that are large enough to exploit.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Laurales
Family:Lauraceae
Genus:Ocotea
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