Hardwood · Medicinal
Laurel
Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken
Mexico to Argentina
Fun factThe species name alliodora means garlic-scented, after the faint garlic odor of the fibrous inner bark.
A fast-growing, light-loving native timber tree. It moves into pastures, roadsides and clearings, and often forms pure stands after forest is cleared. It is easy to recognize by the swollen, hollow nodes on its young branches, from which branchlets radiate and in which ants usually live. On the dry Pacific slope it grows shorter and less straight than in wet forest, and it drops its leaves for one to two months after it sets seed.
Sourced · see Record tab
Wildacross the estate
FamilyBoraginaceae
Spanish nameLaurel
Also known asSpanish elm, Salmwood, Onion cordia, Smokewood, Laurel blanco
Native toNative from northern Mexico through Central America and most of the Caribbean to Paraguay, southern Brazil and northern Argentina; in Costa Rica it grows on both slopes from sea level to about 900 m.
Grows wild across the estate.