Cecropia

Cecropia is a Neotropical genus consisting of 61 recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees. The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the species being myrmecophytic. Berg and Rosselli state that the genus is characterized by some unusual traits: spathes fully enclosing the flower-bearing parts of the inflorescences until anthesis, patches of dense indumenta (trichilia) producing Müllerian bodies (food) at the base of the petiole, and anthers becoming detached at anthesis. Cecropia is most studied

fast growing tree, native to the Neotropics, invasive elsewhere

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species of tree species native to the Caribbean

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