Pigeon Wood
Trema orientalis
Also known as Oriental Nettle, Oriental trema, Gunpowder tree, Charcoal tree
About Pigeon Wood
Trema orientale (sometimes Trema orientalis) is a species of flowering tree in the hemp family, Cannabaceae. It is known by many common names, including charcoal-tree, Indian charcoal-tree, pigeon wood, Oriental trema, and in Hawaii, where it has become naturalized, gunpowder tree, or nalita. It has a near universal distribution in tropical and warm temperate parts of the Old World, with a range extending from South Africa, through the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and southern China to Southeast Asia and Australia.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Trema orientalis
- Genus
- Trema
- Family
- ULMACEAE
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Dry and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Native to
- Indo-Malaysia
- Distribution
- India, Tropical Africa, SE. Asia through Malesia to Queensland, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-October
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Ulmaceae
Elm Family
Pigeon Wood belongs to the Ulmaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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