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Ombu
Phytolacca dioica
Phytolacca dioica, commonly known as ombú, is a massive evergreen tree native to the Pampa of South America. It has an umbrella-like canopy that spreads to a girth of 12 to 15 meters (40 to 50 feet) and can attain a height of 12 to 18 meters (40 to 60 feet). Because it is derived from herbaceous ancestors, its trunk consists of anomalous secondary thickening rather than true wood. As a result, the ombú grows fast...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Metallic Museum
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1648 · p.467
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.463
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.464
Books on Marine Fishes
Guillaume Rondelet · 1554 · p.333
Description of Less Known and Rare Plants
Fabio Colonna · 1616 · p.410
History of Monsters
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1642 · p.850
History of Monsters
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1642 · p.851
Illustrated Herbal Primer
Chen Jiamo (陳嘉謨) · 1628 · p.154
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Phytolacca dioica in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 129582.