Mytilaria laosensis seed
LATIN NAME: Mytilaria laosensis
COMMON NAME: Mytilaria
The mytilaria is a handsome, upright, evergreen tree of the warm forests, and its fine, large, round or heart-shaped, leathery, glossy leaves and its small, inconspicuous, greenish flowers, followed by the small, round, woody, spiny capsules, have made it a treasured and fine tree of the region. It grows as an upright, evergreen tree, reaching up to thirty metres or more, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the alternate, large, round or heart-shaped, pointed, leathery, glossy leaves and, through the warm months, the small, inconspicuous, greenish flowers, followed by the small, round, woody, spiny capsules of the few seeds. It is a species of the flowering tree in the witch hazel family, and it is native to the warm forests of the south-eastern Asia and the southern China, while it is prized for its fine, tall, straight form and its fine timber, and it is known as the mytilaria.
In the witch hazel family it is the tall, glossy tree of the warm forests, a species whose large, leathery leaves and straight trunk mark it out in the forest canopy.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The mytilaria appears in the forest-ecology papers of the south-eastern Asia as a fine subject of the warm forest study, and the botanists have mapped its place in the witch hazel family and the regional flora. The foresters have studied the tall, straight form and the useful timber of the region, and the wildlife ecologists have watched the forest creatures shelter beneath the large-leaved canopy. It is a tree of the forest-scale kind, and the growers of the warm-region trees keep it in their catalogues for the glossy, leathery leaves.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the warm, moist garden, the mytilaria is the tall, glossy tree of the big garden. Its small flowers feed the insects, its spiny capsules feed the birds, and the large, round, leathery leaves give the garden a bold, tropical presence. The useful timber has served the fine building and the crafts of the region, and the tree grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained ground. Large-leaved, tall and glossy.
These seeds are best sown fresh — press them at a shallow depth into pots of rich, moist, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a sheltered, half-shaded spot and never let them dry out, and the first shoots will soon show.