Pioneer species, fast-growing and often small and short-lived along roadsides, but can become a large tree in forest, to about 60 cm dbh. Flowers unisexual, fruits animal-dispersed with numerous small seeds. Wood soft, density 0.5 local uses only.
Very similar to A. vogelii, distinguished vegetatively by the shortly petiolate leaf base.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith