Description: [male specimen] Tree cultivated for edible young leaves and seeds cooked and roasted, excellent crackers made from flour, fibre from bark. Section Gnetum, Subsection Gnetum
Culture: slightly acid to neutral, well drained soils and tolerates infertile and shallow substrates
USDA Zone: 10-11
Accession Data:
Accession # 199500163
Source: Fairchild Tropical Gardens
Provenance:
Acquired by Kim Glazier (grad student) while enrolled in course at Fairchild.
Fairchild # is 85-247, Clone16
Recorded Vouchers:
Voucher 127692 at George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN). Specimen collected 30 April 2004.
Voucher 127690 at George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN). Specimen collected 30 April 2004. Herbarium Image
Voucher 129179 at George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN). Specimen collected 13 April 2005. Herbarium Image
W/C = Wild Collected = indicates flowering in past 14 days
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