Bursera simaruba (L.) Sarg.
BURSERACEAE
- Frankincense family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
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Name: Bursera simaruba (L.) Sarg.
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Gumbo limbo
English name: West Indian-birch
Spanish name: palo jiote
French name: bois de gommier blanc
Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
= Elaphrium simaruba (L.) Rose
= Pistacia simaruba L.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Sapindales
Family: Burseraceae
Genus: Bursera
Species:
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Bursera simaruba
Bark and trunk at Mangrove Park Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Leaves with raindrops at Mangrove Nature Park Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Fruit at Green Cay Wetlands Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Trunk and leaves at John Prince Park Lake Worth, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Bursera simaruba
Leaves at Mangrove Nature Park Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Habit at Mangrove Nature Park Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Habit at Mangrove Nature Park Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Trunk at John Prince Park Lake Worth, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Habit at Green Cay Wetlands Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Bursera simaruba
Trunk and bark at Mangrove Nature Park Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Leaves at Green Cay Wetlands Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Leaves at Ocean Ridge Hammock Park, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Habit at Ocean Ridge Hammock Park, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Trunk at John Prince Park Lake Worth, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
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Bursera simaruba
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Bursera simaruba
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Bursera simaruba
Trunk at John Prince Park Lake Worth, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Fruit at Green Cay Wetlands Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Fruit at Green Cay Wetlands Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Bursera simaruba
Habit at Mangrove Park Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (Florida), USA+ (PR, VI)
Map for Bursera simaruba (L.) Sarg.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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