Bombacopsis quinata

taxobox
name = Pochote

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image_caption = "B. quinata" flower, showing abundance of stamens
status = VU
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Malvales
familia = Malvaceae
genus = "Bombacopsis"
species = "B. quinata"
binomial = "Bombacopsis quinata"
binomial_authority = (Jacq.) Dugand|

A relatively common timber tree of western Costa Rica, pochotes bear large, stubby thorns on their trunk and branches, and are often planted as living fenceposts, with barbed wire strung between them. It can also be found in the Central American dry forest of Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and in South America it can be found in Venezuela and Colombia.

References

* Listed as Vulnerable (VU A1cd v2.3)

External links

* [http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/adc/downloads/capitulos_especies_y_anexos/bombacopsis_quinata.pdf Árboles de Centroamérica: Bombacopsis quinata (pdf Spanish)]