Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Cupaniopsis anacardioides
Carrotwood
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
Treatment:
Up to 33 feet
Alternate, compound, with four-12 leaflets that are oblong, leathery, and
shiny yellowish green. Leaflets can reach eight inches in length and three
inches in width. Tips may be rounded or slightly indented.
Numerous, white to greenish yellow and small. Occur in branched clusters.
Dark gray outer bark and often orange inner bark.
Woody capsule with three distinctly ridged segments. Fruit ripen in summer,
each about one inch in diameter, yellow to orange in color and divided into
six sections, somewhat resembling a small pumpkin. Seeds are bright red.
Slender evergreen tree capable of competing with other aggressive nonnative
plants such as Brazilian pepper. Tolerant of a wide variety of extreme
conditions. Invades tropical hammocks, pinelands, mangrove swamps, scrub
habitats and coastal strands.
Basal with 10% Garlon 4 or stump with 50% Garlon 3A
www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm
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