Commidendrum rotundifolium, the bastard gumwood, is a species of tree endemic to the island of Saint Helena. It was thought to be extinct, but one last tree was discovered in Horse Pasture in 1982. This tree, long believed to be the last, was destroyed in 1986 by a gale. However seedlings were grown from this tree before it perished.

2024年5月21日 · Gumwoods grow to a height of about 8 metres. They have a highly branching structure, forking low and producing an umbrella like canopy. The leaves are between 7 and 10 cm long and varyf rom grey green to dark green. They are thick and hairy giving a wrinkled impression and are borne in tight whorls.

2021年2月25日 · False gumwood (Commidendrum spurium) and bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium) are now growing in our Tropical Nursery. The first human eyes which looked upon the island of Saint Helena would have seen something very different from its landscape today.

2022年3月11日 · In our Tropical Nursery, two species of gumwood (Commidendrum) that are endemic to the island have been successfully grown from seeds stored at the Millennium Seed Bank. False gumwood (Commidendrum spurium) and bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium) are now growing in our Gardens.

Gumwood seedlings. With little natural regeneration and the majority of the mature specimens being of approximately the same age and relatively old, it is not difficult to infer a current and future continuing decline in the number of mature individuals in the population. Gumwood habitat is also under severe

In this paper I suggest that the gumwood formerly covered huge areas of St Helena. Presently, however, it is reduced to a few relict populations. I examine the causes of this massive decline, with a view to the possibility of re-establishing gumwood woods in …

2025年1月1日 · Commidendrum robustum gummiferum, commonly known as the Gumwood tree, is an endemic species found primarily on the unique islands of the Indian Ocean, such as

2024年11月12日 · The Saint Helena gumwood (Commidendrum robustum) is a remarkable tree species native to the isolated island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Known

2018年7月20日 · Believed to have already been extinct, a solitary Bastard Gumwood tree was found on the Horse Pasture terrain in 1982 by St Helenian ecologist, Stedson Stroud. Seeds were duly collected, from which a single tree was established at Pounceys – the second generation.

2024年5月21日 · The false gumwood is a small branching tree which was once a common species of moist gumwood woodland, growing at altitudes of about 500-650m above sea level. Also associated with this vegetation type were the redwood (now extinct in the wild), rosemary (critically endangered) and the gumwood (lost from this area but still surviving in drier ...