ON THIS PLANT
Trema orientale is a species of flowering tree in the hemp family, Cannabaceae. It is known by many common names, including charcoal-tree, Indian charcoal-tree, pigeon wood, Oriental trema, and in Hawaii, where it has become naturalized, gunpowder tree, or nalita. It has a near universal distribution in tropical and warm temperate parts of the Old World, with a range extending from South Africa, through the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and southern China to Southeast Asia and Australia.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Trema
- Family
- Cannabaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Indian Charcoal Tree en Indian Nettle en Oriental Nettle en Pigeon Wood en Poison Peach en Charcoal tree en Indian nettle tree en Rhodesian elm
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