Abstract
Abstract The Cabbage-bark tree, or Worm-bark tree, grows in most parts of Jamaica, and particularly abounds in the low Savannahs of St. Mary and St. George. It rises to a considerable height, but no great thickness, sending off branches towards the top of a straight, smooth trunk. The leaves are, when young, of a light-green hue; when full-grown, of a dark-green colour; and before they drop, of a rusty appearance. The flower-spike is long and beautifully branched. The flowers are numerous; the calyces of a dark purple; their petals of the colour of the pale-rose; the nectaria must contain much honey, as thousands of bees, beetles of various kinds, butter-flies, and humming-birds, are continually feeding thereon.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
The cabbage-bark tree grows across most of Jamaica and abounds in low savannahs of St. Mary and St. George.
Verbatim
e0“The Cabbage-bark tree, or Worm-bark tree, grows in most parts of Jamaica, and particularly abounds in the low Savannahs of St. Mary and St. George.”
Claim · model-written summary
The tree is tall but slender, with branches near the top of a straight smooth trunk.
Verbatim
e0“It rises to a considerable height, but no great thickness, sending off branches towards the top of a straight, smooth trunk.”
t0“cabbage-bark tree”
Claim · model-written summary
Young leaves are light green, mature leaves dark green, and leaves before drop rusty.
Verbatim
e0“The leaves are, when young, of a light-green hue; when full-grown, of a dark-green colour; and before they drop, of a rusty appearance.”
t0“cabbage-bark tree”
Claim · model-written summary
The flower spike is long and branched.
Verbatim
e0“The flower-spike is long and beautifully branched.”
t0“cabbage-bark tree”
Claim · model-written summary
The flowers are numerous with dark purple calyces and pale rose petals.
Verbatim
e0“The flowers are numerous; the calyces of a dark purple; their petals of the colour of the pale-rose”
t0“cabbage-bark tree”
Claim · model-written summary
Bees, beetles, butterflies, and hummingbirds continually feed at the flowers.
- Taxon
- cabbage-bark treet0
- Interactor
- beesAnthophilae0pollinator
- Second interactor
- beetlesColeopterae0pollinator
- Outcome
- bees, beetles of various kinds, butter-flies, and humming-birds, are continually feeding thereone0
- Qualifier
- butter-flies, and humming-birdse0
Verbatim
e0“thousands of bees, beetles of various kinds, butter-flies, and humming-birds, are continually feeding thereon”
t0“cabbage-bark tree”