Wild Flowering Plants

Picramniaceae
Picramnia pentandra   Sw.
Bwa moudong
Caribbean, Colombia to Venezuela.
Rare small tree of all elevations. We have seen this tree in deciduous seasonal forest and semi-evergreen seasonal forest, as well as lower montane, montane, and cloud montane rainforest.
The images are from a variety of habitats.
Leaflets in compound leaf are not exactly opposite, a rare arrangement.
Bitter bark.
local medicinal uses
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