Ceylon ironwood - Mesua ferrea ( edit )

Botany
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Calophyllaceae
Sub-family: Calophylloideae
(subfam & crops)
Species: Mesua ferrea
Common name: Ceylon ironwood

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Origin
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Malaysia & Indonesia
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Uses

Main use:
timber
Harvest method:
Shelf life:
Yield first season:
Yield top season:
Parameter Concerning part Quality Crop's name Proportion Top-50
Edibility
Medicinal
medicals
Lipids ( )
liphids
Apiculture:
honey
Fruit:
fruits
Nut:
nuts
Fodder:
fodder
Wood stem / wood
good
940ρ 1,195ρ timber
Fuel: stem / wood -5 credits 0 kcal/kg fuelwood
Minor uses:








  • timber
  • fuel
  • fodder
  • ornamental
  • oil
  • poison/herbicide
  • tannin
  • ornamental

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Plant Details

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Crown
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
Height:
36
 m tallest
Crown width:
18
 m widest
Planting distance:
300
 cm
Row distance:
300
 cm
Growing speed:
slow
 fastest
Shade tolerance:
shade tolerant
 umbra

Roots
Parameter Value Top-50
RootSystem:
deep
 hexagon
MycorRhiza:
endo-mycorrhizae
 AM-plants
Symbiotic fungi:
M-fungi
N-fixing:
not able to
 N-plants
Symbiotic bacteria:
N-bact.

Crop Timing
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
First flowering: 0 - 0 Years latest
Soonest commercial removal:
60
 Years fastest
Lifespan:
110
 Years oldest
InterCropModel(ICM):

Regeneration
Parameter Value Top-50
Flower morphology: bi-sexual
 specials
Pollinators:
insects
 specials
Allelopathy: not allelopathic resists
Abscission: specials
Invasiveness: weeds
Thorns: no thorns fencers

Environment
Parameter min optimal max Unit Top-50
Altitude: 0m 1150 m 2,300m meters above sea-level highest
Temperature: 5°C 19°C 28°C Celcius hardiest
Rainfall: 1,100 mm 2550 mm 4,000 mm mm/year (litres/m2) dryest
Soil-pH: 5.0 7.0 pH dryest
Soil-texture:
sand
Climate:
tropical

Seeds
Parameter Value Unit
Seed storage:
hypogeal
Seed viability:
30
 months
Seed weight:
180
220
 seeds/kg

Tolerances
Parameter Value Top-50
Salt tolerance:
intolerant
 tolerants
Wind tolerance:
tolerants
Fire tolerance:
intolerant
 tolerants

Pests and Diseases
Pests:
Diseases:

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