Claoxylon marianum
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Chamorro Name: Katot
Form: Medium size tree
Stem: Smooth gray stems with dense compacted leaves
Leaves: Smooth, membranous, elliptic-oblong alternating on firm petioles 3-5cm long. Leaf margins are serrated. 7-10 pairs of secondary veins that are broadly reticulated.
Flower: Male and female flowers occur separately. Both are situated on fascicled racemes, greenish-blue in color, waxy and elongate.
Fruit: Purplish capsules about 7-8 mm thick containing 3 chambers. One seed found in each chamber with a thin orange skin.
Propagation: Seeds or stem cuttings
Habitat: Limestone forest edges
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Flowers and buds
Immature and mature fruit. Purple capsule and exposed seeds hidden near stem.
Mature fruit with one of three capsules already fallen, exposing orange-skinned seed.
Mature fruit with orange skin on seed and purple capsule.
Mature purple fruit (dry)