Cecropia


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Synonyms for Cecropia

large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning

North American silkworm moth

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Cecropia pachystachya Trecul (Urticaceae), as other species of the genus, is a common plant typical of the initial phases of ecological succession that attracts many frugivorous animals.
Source of seeds: Cecropia fruits were obtained along the lakeshore of the Yahuarcaca lake system (4[degrees]11'16" S-69[degrees]58'16" W) at 82 m in elevation.
Cecropia glaziovii leaves were purchased from the Pluridisciplinary Center of Chemical, Biological, and Agronomic Studies of the University of Campinas (Brazil) and the freeze-dried extract employed as model drug was prepared as previously described in the literature [20].
We describe the agonistic interaction between the opossum and a bat of the species Artibeus lituratus while they foraged on the same infructescences of Cecropia glaziovii and C.
Natural enemies of Stenoma cecropia (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) in oil palm, in the southwest of Colombia
The three largest are Ierne, Lemuria or Olympia, and Cecropia. Astronomers have noted these for several decades (Beish 2012).
Feeding on those thyme flowers, Greece's gentle cecropia bees produce a honey that is among the most prized in the world: Hymettus honey, also known as Greek thyme honey.