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Couma utilis
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Couma utilis, called the milk tree, sorvinha, sorveira, sorva, and sorva-pequena, is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily Rauvolfioideae, native to the Orinoco and Amazon basins of South America. It is thought that C. utilis was on the verge of being domesticated by indigenous Amazonian peoples prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Couma utilis
- Slug
- couma-utilis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Couma
- Species
- utilis
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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