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Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center
Catalog (Accession) #: YS1H0031
Occurrence ID (GUID): 3b566426-4cbb-4f46-9ba3-cd51d024c7e7
Taxon: Persea americana P. Miller
Family: Lauraceae
Determiner: H. Nowatuo (09 May 2013)
Collector: Binatang Research Center   YS1H0031   
Date: 2013-05-09
Verbatim Date: 21 Jul 2012
Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Yawan
-6.1641  146.843567
Elevation: 1851 meters (6071ft)
Habitat: Secondary montane rainforest
Description: tree, to 12.5 m in height, DBH 29.2 cm, trunk height to foliage 1.1 m, crown height 11.4 m, crown width 5 m; foliage 18.6 kg mature wet mass; outer bark rough, with lenticels; fissures vertical, narrow; bark brown, red; cambium brown, red; wood brown, red; exudate absent, wood sample preserved, from felled plot. Local name: Bata Local use: Wood is used as timber for building house and fence; firewood; Fruit is edible.
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Record Id: 3b566426-4cbb-4f46-9ba3-cd51d024c7e7
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