Category

Trees of Ecuador

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Pouteria caimito

species of flowering plant

Mauritia flexuosa

species of palm tree

Parkinsonia aculeata

species of plant

Vasconcellea ×heilbornii

The babaco (Vasconcellea × heilbornii; syn. Carica pentagona), is a hybrid cultivar in the genus Vasconcellea from Ecuador. It is a hybrid between Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis (syn. Carica pubescens, "mountain papaya"), and Vasconcellea stipulata (syn. Carica stipulata, "toronche") although Vasconcellea weberbaueri has also been mentioned as a contributor to the hybrid.

edible fruit and medicinal plant in Central America

species of plant

Cinchona officinalis

Species of plant

species of plant

species of plant

Theobroma bicolor

species of plant

species of plant

Miconia calvescens

species of plant

Buddleja incana

species of plant

Aniba rosaeodora

species of plant

Castilla elastica

species of plant

Prosopis pallida

species of legume

Aphandra natalia

Aphandra is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the palm family native to the Amazon rainforest vegetation in South America (Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru). Its only species is Aphandra natalia, sometimes called mastodon palm or fiber palm, and is used by indigenous peoples in the construction of brooms and other products. This plant is commercially exploited for its edible fruits, and for its leaf sheath and petiole fibers. This fiber is almost equal to the fiber extracted from Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba, which is called piassava.

Cordia alliodora

species of plant

Virola surinamensis

species of plant

Handroanthus serratifolius

species of plant

Croton lechleri

species of plant

Cavanillesia platanifolia

species of plant

Triplaris americana

species of plant

Erythrina edulis

species of plant

species of plant

species of plant

Minquartia guianensis

Minquartia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Olacaceae family containing the single species Minquartia guianensis (also called black manwood or huambula). It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Calycophyllum spruceanum

species of plant

Psidium acutangulum

species of plant

Podocarpus glomeratus

species of plant

Virola calophylla

species of plant

Sambucus peruviana

species of plant

Buddleja coriacea

species of plant

Ocotea raimondii

species of plant

Podocarpus sprucei

species of plant

Astrocaryum jauari

species of plant

Phenakospermum is a monotypic genus in the family Strelitziaceae. Only one species is recognized, Phenakospermum guyannense, native to Suriname, French Guiana and the eastern Amazon River basin. This plant grows to over in height but can be felled with a single blow with a machete.

Retrophyllum rospigliosii

species of plant

Juglans neotropica

species of plant

Podocarpus oleifolius

species of plant

Annona asplundiana

species of plant

Polylepis racemosa

species of plant

Parajubaea cocoides

species of plant

Phytelephas aequatorialis

species of plant

Magnolia rimachii

species of plant

Escallonia resinosa

species of plant

Astrocaryum chambira

species of plant

Vallea stipularis

species of plant

Aspidosperma spruceanum

species of plant

species of plant

species of plant

Tapirira guianensis

species of plant

Poraqueiba sericea

species of tree

Geissanthus ecuadorensis

species of plant

Cedrela montana

species of plant

Ceroxylon echinulatum

species of plant

Escallonia myrtilloides

species of plant

Mauritiella aculeata

species of plant

Ceroxylon vogelianum

species of plant

Prumnopitys montana

species of plant