Metopium toxiferum (L.) Krug & Urb.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Anacardiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Metopium toxiferum (L.) Krug & Urb.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A poisonous tree, up to 14 m. high with a trunk sometimes 2 dm. in diameter, the thin bark reddish-brown without, orange within, splitting into large scales, the branches widely spreading. Leaves 3 dm. long or less, glabrous; leaflets 3-7, ovate to suborbicular or obovate, chartaceous, 2.5-10 cm. long, acute, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed to cordate at the base, bright green and shining above, dull beneath, the petiolules 1-3 cm. long; panicles many-flowered, as long as the leaves or longer; pedicels rather stout, 2-4 mm. long: sepals obtuse, much shorter than the ovate obtuse yellowish green petals; drupes oblong, orange-yellow, 1-1.5 cm. long, in spreading or drooping panicles.

  • Distribution

    Pine-lands and scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Caicos, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuba ; Haiti : Puerto Rico. Referred by Hitchcock and by Dolley to Rhus Metopium L. ; by Mrs. Northrop to Metopium Metopium (L.) Small. Poison-tkee. Catesby, 1 : pi. 40.

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