About Fiddle wood
Citharexylum spinosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Verbenaceae that is native to southern Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Common names include Florida fiddlewood and spiny fiddlewood.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Citharexylum spinosum
- Genus
- Citharexylum
- Family
- VERBENACEAE
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Grown in gardens
- Native to
- Caribbean territories
- Distribution
- Introduced and naturalized
- Flowering & fruiting
- November-September
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Malayalam
- പാരിജാതം
Botanical family
Verbenaceae
Verbena/Teak family
Fiddle wood belongs to the Verbenaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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