sandbox tree; monkey’s dinner bell (West Indies, Burkill)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
abru koyin (BD&H; FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
dimbo (K&B) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
bombardier (Kerharo & Bouquet; Berhaut); bois du Diable (Berhaut); crepiton (Anon. K.); sablier (Berhaut); sablier des Antilles (Kerharo & Bouquet)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
Flora
Entry for HURA crepitans Linn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
HURA crepitansLinn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1008. —Baill. Étude Gén. Euphorb. Atl. 14, t. 6, fig. 21–35; Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1229; Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman. 272.
Information
A tree 50–80 ft. high; branches armed with cylindric spines, or unarmed. Leaves long-petioled, firmly membranous, ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, base rounded or cordate, entire or finely and remotely toothed, 2 1/2–8 in. long, 2–6 1/2 in. wide, main-nerves 10–12 pairs, secondary venation parallel, distinct pilose with long spreading hairs on the nerves beneath; petiole 3–6 in. long, glabrous; stipules linear-lanceolate, 1/2 in. long, deciduous. Peduncle of male spike 2–3 in. long; spike cylindric-conic, bright red, 2 in. long, 3/4 in. wide at the base. Pedicel of female flowers 1/2 in. long, much elongated in fruit. Anthers usually in 2–3, rarely in single whorls. Ovary including the style 1 1/4–2 in. long; stigma 1/2 in. across, reddish-violet. Capsule depressed, 1 1/3 in. deep, 3 in. wide hollowed at the apex and base, deeply sulcate between the cocci.
