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Cecropia obtusifolia (guarumo; trumpet tree)

Wikipedia Abstract

Cecropia obtusifolia is a species of plant in the Urticaceae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama. Common Names are trumpet tree or snakewood tree. In Central America it is known as Guarumo. Though impressive silhouetted against the sky, it is an invasive species to the islands of Hawaii. Cecropia obtusifolia is used in traditional Amerindian medicine.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Barbilla National Park II 29582 Costa Rica  
Corcovado National Park 115845 Costa Rica  
Guanacaste National Park II 85819 Costa Rica  
Tortuguero National Park II 47632 Costa Rica

Predators

Alouatta palliata (mantled howler monkey)[3]
Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)[4]
Artibeus lituratus (great fruit-eating bat)[4]
Colobura dirce (Zebra mosaic butterfly)[5]
Habia fuscicauda (Red-throated Ant-Tanager)[6]
Habia rubica (Red-crowned Ant-Tanager)[6]
Historis odius (Butterfly)[5]
Hylocichla mustelina (Wood Thrush)[4]
Philander opossum (Gray Four-eyed Opossum)[7]
Saguinus oedipus (cotton-top tamarin)[8]
Vampyressa nymphaea (striped yellow-eared bat)[4]

Distribution

Oceania;

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Photos

Citations

Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 3Feeding and General Activity Patterns of a Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) Troop Living in a Forest Fragment at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, Alejandro Estrada, Saúl Juan-Solano, Teresita Ortíz Martínez and Rosamond Coates-Estrada, American Journal of Primatology 48:167-183 (1999) ♦ 4Food niche overlap among neotropical frugivorous bats in Costa Rica, Jorge E. Lopez & Christopher Vaughan, Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 55 (1): 301-313, March 2007 ♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 6Dieta y dispersión de semillas por dos especies de Tangara (Habia) en dos tipos de vegetación en los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, México, Fernando Puebla-Olivares & Kevin Winker, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 15: 53–64, 2004 ♦ 7Philander opossum, Iván Castro-Arellano, Heliot Zarza, and Rodrigo A. Medellín, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 638, pp. 1–8 (2000) ♦ 8Proyecto Tití
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