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Ocotea catharinensis is a large, slow-growing evergreen hardwood tree from the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, reaching up to 40 m in the wild. It is grown mainly for its valuable timber and is threatened by overexploitation, so it is rarely grown as an ornamental in gardens.
Ocotea catharinensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a slow-growing evergreen, a valuable hardwood tree of broad ecological importance, and it is threatened by habitat loss and by overexploitation for its timber and essential oils.
The tree is endemic to southeastern Brazil in the Atlantic Forest ecoregion.
The tree is badly overexploited for its valuable hardwood, its essential oils with their (linalool) content, and for various pharmaceutical compounds or prospects such as neolignans. From the early- to mid-20th century the wood was popular for the flooring of houses in the Brazilian coastal State of Santa Catarina.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ocotea catharinensis 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.
