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Sapium glandulosum

Sapium glandulosum

(L.) Morong
Curupicaí

Family: Euphorbiaceae
Order: Malpighiales
Class: Magnoliopsida
Phylum / Division: Magnoliophyta
Kingdom: Plantae

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Synonyms: Excoecaria biglandulosa, Hippomane biglandulosa, Hippomane glandulosa, Omphalea glandulata, Sapium aucuparium, Sapium biglandulosum, Sapium cremostachyum, Sapium fragile, Sapium glandulatum, Sapium haematospermum, Sapium klotschianum, Sapium montevidense, Sapium muelleri, Sapium paranaense, Sapium salicifolium, Sapium saltense, Stillingia cremostachya.





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Sapium glandulosum is a species of tree in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to the Neotropics from Mexico and the Caribbean south to Argentina, and it has been cultivated elsewhere. It is the most common Sapium species. Its common names include gumtree, milktree, leche de olivo, and olivo macho.

This is a species of tree up to 30 meters tall, usually with some buttress roots and multiple trunks. Smaller woody parts can have short, thick spines. It has a thin, patchy, peeling, scarred outer bark and a granular inner bark. It produces large amounts of milky latex. The alternately arranged leaves have toothed oblong or oval leaves up to 27 centimeters long by 8 wide. New leaves have gland-tipped teeth. The species is monoecious. The inflorescence is a spikelike arrangement of clusters of male flowers with a few female flowers at the base. The tiny rounded purple male flower is barely over a millimeter long. The female flower has 3 styles about 2 millimeters long. The fruit is a greenish-brown, rounded capsule up to a centimeter long which splits into 3 segments, each holding a seed. The seed is covered in a thin layer of red pulp.

This tree grows in tropical moist and wet forests.

The copious latex is of high quality and can be used to make rubber. It is difficult to harvest, so it is not commercially useful.

Source: Wikipedia, article Sapium glandulosum. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 18/07/2026.





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Photography ID: 602604
  Adult

Alvear
Corrientes
Argentina
12/18/2021
Maria Belén Dri
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Photography ID: 602559
  Adult

Alvear
Corrientes
Argentina
12/18/2021
Maria Belén Dri


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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
216193318/12/2021ArgentinaCorrientesAlvearMaria Belén Dri
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Sapium glandulosum – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 14/09/2026.