2023-02-09 TEC-0685 Coccoloba uvifera, habit - E.P. Mallory

            It was a bit surprising to come across Coccoloba uvifera, a.k.a. seagrape, a coastal species 27-km from Belize's coast. It is on the edge of the old Western Highway, a dirt road infrequently used for decades. 
Contemporary ecosystem maps this location is lowland savanna and 14-km west of a littoral mangroves on the fringe of the brackish Northern Lagoon. The terrain is flat and composed of shallow coastal deposits, the soil has been described as loamy sand and gravelly sand underlain by mottled coarse sandy clay.
The red veins on the large orbiculate leaves are distinctive.
   

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Taken in: Belize / Belize District / Rockville (show map)

Taken on: February 9, 2023

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2023

2° leaf veins prominulous to prominent underneath

3° leaf veins slightly prominulous on top

@ TEC

Belize

Belize District

Belize Zoo

Blades orbicular

CHRYSOBALANACEAE

Chrysobalanus icaco

Coccoloba sp.

Coccoloba uvifera

Coco Plum

ID'd

LEAVES ALTERNATE

Leaf bottom

Leaf top

Leaves distichous

Lf lower surface light green

POLYGONACEAE

SIMPLE LEAF

TBZ

Tropical Education Center

abaxial surface

adaxial surface

anastomizing venation

apex emarginate to retuse

apex truncate

bark with prominent lenticels

buckwheat family

cladodromous venation

foliage

in situ

leaf base reniform

leaf midrib prominent below

leaf midrib raised or swollen above

leaf midrib swollen below

leaf scar(s)

leaves bullate

leaves glabrous

lenticellated bark

macrophyllous

mature bark

mature leaves

multiple species

ochreate stipules

seagrape

smooth bark

surface

thin bark

top of leaf shiny

underneath leaf hairless

vein coloration

whitish-gray stem

yellowish-green leaves

Democracia « less

Sets appears in: • POLYGONACEAE at The Belize Zoo's TEC

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