SALICACEAE Formerly FLACOURTIACEAE
Shake hand Tree
Dioecious
© Dr Paul Berry
The spines are straight
Flowering time;
Distribution; GC otherwise only known from Northern Bahamas
Habitat; Dry thickets and woodland
Status; Infrequent
Notes; This tree grows extremely slowly, a large tree may have taken hundreds of years to reach that height. The trunk is spiny.