Wild Flowering Plants
| Moraceae
family Castilla elastica Sessé y Lacasta in Cervantes, Gaz. Lit. México Supl. 2 Jul. 1794(3): 7. 1794. Kaochou. Panama rubber tree. Naturalized quite common tree of disturbed semi-evergreen seasonal forest, especially around farms/plantations. Native to Mesoamerica, northwestern South America (Colombia, Ecuador). Presumably introduced for its rubbery latex. |