Picrodendraceae
Picrodendron

Picrodendron baccatum (L.) Krug & Urb.

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 308 (1892)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Caribbean. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Vernacular
wild plum, cherry, Jamaica walnut, black ironwood
Morphology General Habit
A tree to 12 m tall, or in exposed situations low and shrubby; leaflets mostly narrowly to very broadly elliptic, rarely obovate, mostly 2.5–9 cm long, acutish to blunt or rounded at the apex, glabrous to rather densely puberulous chiefly on veins beneath; ultimate venation finely reticulate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Staminate inflorescences minutely puberulous; anthers ca. 1 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Pistillate flowers with denticulate sepals mostly 3–5 mm long, thickening in fruit
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruits subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, ca. 2 cm in diameter, greenish to orange-yellow, with bitter flesh.
Distribution
Cayman Islands. Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Swan Islands.
Ecology
In rocky woodlands and thickets.
[Cayman]

Uses

Use
The fruits are a favourite food of iguanoid lizards (genus Cyclura). Seeds alleged to be edible, “but should be eaten with caution” (Fawcett & Rendle (1920), p. 275).
[Cayman]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0