Picconia excelsa

Picconia excelsa

Picconia excelsa is a species of the genus Picconia.

Features

Picconia excelsa is reached a tree, plant height up to 18 meters. Branches and leaves are hairless. The branches are round, white, with lip-shaped white lenticels. The leaves are 2 to 5 inches wide, mostly broadly ovate-lanceolate, leathery, entire, rarely slightly serrate, finely dotted with rolled edge distance and narrowing to leaf in the stem. The flowers are white. The corolla tube is short or absent. The crown is deep columns, each of the two parts itself is in two parts again. The fruits are olive -shaped, pointed at both ends and dry.

Occurrence

Picconia excelsa comes to the Canary Islands El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife and Gran Canaria before and Madeira.

Documents

  • Adalbert Hohenester, Walter of Wels: Excursion Flora of the Canary Islands. With views of all Macaronesia. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-3466-7.
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