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| image_caption = ''Myroxylon balsamum'' from Koehler's ''Medicinal-Plants'' (1887)
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|image_caption=''Myroxylon balsamum'' from Koehler's ''Medicinal-Plants'' (1887)
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| genus = '''''Myroxylon'''''
 
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''Myroxylon balsamum''<br/>
 
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''Myroxylon peruiferum''
 
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'''''Myroxylon''''' is a genus of two species of [[South America]]n [[tree]]s in the [[Fabaceae]] (Leguminosae). The tree is well know in the western world as the source for [[balsam of Peru]] and [[Tolu balsam|balsam of Tolu]].  
 
'''''Myroxylon''''' is a genus of two species of [[South America]]n [[tree]]s in the [[Fabaceae]] (Leguminosae). The tree is well know in the western world as the source for [[balsam of Peru]] and [[Tolu balsam|balsam of Tolu]].  
  
 
They are small trees growing to 12 m tall, with [[evergreen]] pinnate [[leaf|leaves]] 15 cm long with 5-13 leaflets. The [[flower]]s are white with yellow stamens, produced in [[raceme]]s. The [[fruit]] is a [[legume|pod]] 7-11 cm long, containing a single [[seed]].
 
They are small trees growing to 12 m tall, with [[evergreen]] pinnate [[leaf|leaves]] 15 cm long with 5-13 leaflets. The [[flower]]s are white with yellow stamens, produced in [[raceme]]s. The [[fruit]] is a [[legume|pod]] 7-11 cm long, containing a single [[seed]].
  
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Myroxylon (Myrrh Wood, From the scent). Syn. Toluifera. Leguminosae. A few balsam-bearing trees of S. Amer., scarcely cult.horticulturally. Lvs. odd- pinnate; Ifts. exstipellate, glandular-punctate: fls. more or less papilionaceous, white or whitish, in axillary simple racemes or paniculate at ends of branches; calyx irregularly dentate; standard orbicular; 4 inferior petals subequal, narrow and free; stamens deciduous with the petals, free or connate at base: pod stalked, compressed, indehiscent, at the apex hardened and 1-seeded, the basal part long and narrow and 2-winged. See also Toluifera. M. taluiferum, HBK. (Toluifera Balsamum, Linn.). Tolu-balsam Tree. Tree, to 75 ft. or more, with thick rough bark and a straight trunk: Lfts. 7-11, alternate, oblong and acuminate, quite glabrous, 2-3 ½in. long: the balsam is secured from incisions in the bark. M. peruiferum. Linn. f. Peru-Balsam Tree (but not the source of Balsam of Peru, which is from M. Pereirae. of San Salvador). Beautiful tree: Ifts. 9-13, ovate-oblong, alternate and emarginate at the apex, entire, puberulous on the midrib and petiole, punctate, l½-3 in. long: fls. in simple racemes 4-5 in. long, long-pedicelled.
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==Species==
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''Myroxylon balsamum''<br/>
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''Myroxylon peruiferum''
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Image:Koeh-141.jpg|''Myroxylon balsamum'' from Koehler's ''Medicinal-Plants'' (1887)
 
Image:Koeh-141.jpg|''Myroxylon balsamum'' from Koehler's ''Medicinal-Plants'' (1887)
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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Latest revision as of 21:38, 8 January 2010


Myroxylon balsamum from Koehler's Medicinal-Plants (1887)


Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Scientific Names

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Myroxylon is a genus of two species of South American trees in the Fabaceae (Leguminosae). The tree is well know in the western world as the source for balsam of Peru and balsam of Tolu.

They are small trees growing to 12 m tall, with evergreen pinnate leaves 15 cm long with 5-13 leaflets. The flowers are white with yellow stamens, produced in racemes. The fruit is a pod 7-11 cm long, containing a single seed.


Read about Myroxylon in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Myroxylon (Myrrh Wood, From the scent). Syn. Toluifera. Leguminosae. A few balsam-bearing trees of S. Amer., scarcely cult.horticulturally. Lvs. odd- pinnate; Ifts. exstipellate, glandular-punctate: fls. more or less papilionaceous, white or whitish, in axillary simple racemes or paniculate at ends of branches; calyx irregularly dentate; standard orbicular; 4 inferior petals subequal, narrow and free; stamens deciduous with the petals, free or connate at base: pod stalked, compressed, indehiscent, at the apex hardened and 1-seeded, the basal part long and narrow and 2-winged. See also Toluifera. M. taluiferum, HBK. (Toluifera Balsamum, Linn.). Tolu-balsam Tree. Tree, to 75 ft. or more, with thick rough bark and a straight trunk: Lfts. 7-11, alternate, oblong and acuminate, quite glabrous, 2-3 ½in. long: the balsam is secured from incisions in the bark. M. peruiferum. Linn. f. Peru-Balsam Tree (but not the source of Balsam of Peru, which is from M. Pereirae. of San Salvador). Beautiful tree: Ifts. 9-13, ovate-oblong, alternate and emarginate at the apex, entire, puberulous on the midrib and petiole, punctate, l½-3 in. long: fls. in simple racemes 4-5 in. long, long-pedicelled.


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Describe the plant here...

Cultivation

Propagation

Pests and diseases

Species

Myroxylon balsamum
Myroxylon peruiferum

Gallery

  • Myroxylon balsamum from Koehler's Medicinal-Plants (1887)

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  • photo 2

  • photo 3

References

External links


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