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Cecropia peltata
Also called Snakewood, Trumpet Tree, Pumpwood, Trumpet Tree
In Singapore: Trumpet Tree, Snake Wood, Pop-a-gun, Guarumo, Wild Pawpaw (Naturalised in Singapore)
Pop A Gun (Cecropia peltata) is a fast-growing tree in the nettle family, usually 15 m tall, with large palmately lobed leaves. It thrives in warm, wet tropical conditions and is listed among the world's worst invasive species, so it is generally not recommended for home gardens outside the tropics.
Cecropia peltata is a fast-growing tree in the nettle family Urticaceae. Common names include trumpet tree, trumpet-bush, bacano, bois canon and snakewood. It is listed as one of the world's 100 worst invasive alien species.
Cecropia peltata ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to northern South America, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, and has been introduced in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The species has been listed as one of the hundred worst invasive alien species by the Invasive Species Specialist Group. Replacement of its very close ecological analogue, the native African Musanga cecropioides, by C. peltata has been reported along major roads of Cameroon.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cecropia peltata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
