Cordia - Cordia Myxa, Cordia Subcordata, Cordia Rupicola, Cordia Boissieri, Cordia Sebestena, Cordia Alliodora, Cordia Dichotoma, Geiger Tree (Paperback)

Chapters: Cordia Myxa, Cordia Subcordata, Cordia Rupicola, Cordia Boissieri, Cordia Sebestena, Cordia Alliodora, Cordia Dichotoma, Geiger Tree, Assyrian Plum, Anacahuita. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: See text Cordia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 300 species of shrubs and trees, which are found worldwide mostly in warmer regions. Many of the species are commonly called manjack, while bocote may refer to several Central American species in Spanish. The generic name honours German botanist and pharmacist Valerius Cordus (1515-1544). Like most other Boraginaceae, a majority have trichomes (hairs) on the leaves. Many Cordias have fragrant, showy flowers and are popular in gardens, although they are not especially hardy. A number of the tropical species have edible fruits, known by a wide variety of names including clammy cherries, glue berries, sebesten, or snotty gobbles. In India, the fruits of local species are used as a vegetable, raw, cooked, or pickled, and are known by many names, including lasora in Hindi. One such species is Fragrant Manjack (C. dichotoma), which is called gunda or tenti dela in Hindi and lasura in Nepali. The fruit of the Fragrant Manjack is called pho -p -ch (), , or (POJ: chhi-ch ) in Taiwan where they are eaten pickled. The wood of several Cordia species is commercially harvested. Ecuador Laurel (C. alliodora), Ziricote (C. dodecandra), Spanish Elm (C. gerascanthus), and C. goeldiana are used to make furniture and doors in Central and South America. Ziricote and Bocote are sometimes used as a wood for making acoustic guitar backs and sides. Well-known guitarist Richard Thompson currently plays a Lowden F-35C RT Richard Thompson Signature Model with Ziricote bac...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=239871