Guazuma

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Guazuma in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Guazuma (name of Mexican origin). Sterculiaceae. A few Trop. American trees, allied to Theobroma, with small white, pink or yellow fls. in short-peduncled, axillary cymes. Calyx mostly 3-parted; petals 5, 2- parted; stamen-cup about 10-lobed, the lobes alternating with petals and bearing 2-3 fertile anthers, the staminodia 3-angled; style 5-parted: fr. a 5-valved nut the size of a filbert: lvs. 2-rankedt serrate: fls. small. Theobroma has a berry-like fr., entire lvs., fascicled or solitary fls., and a different staminal column. G. ulmifolia, Lam., the "guacima" of Mex., is offered in Calif. It becomes a large tree: branchlets powdery: lvs. ovate to oblong-lanceolate, somewhat pointed, oblique at base, powdery beneath when young but becoming glabrous: nut nearly globular, with 5 furrows. Said to yield medicinal preparations. G. tomentosa, Kunth, is a small tree in W. Indies, apparently not cult here. L. H. B. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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