Family: Ulmaceae Genus: Celtis Common name: Llidoner. Uses and properties: Edible or food uses, tools. - It makes a wood that does not weigh much and is very strong, ideal for making cametes of forcats, handles of straleta and other tools; also preparing its flexible wood they make forks and guiatos (Ebo).
- Capcingles and cametes del forcat de llidoner (Benimeli).
- Capcingles of llidoner (Beniarbeig).
- The llidoner to make rudders and cametes of forcat, forks, handles... (Fleix).
- To make the best guiatos, those that last more; it does not give, it does not crack, it does not break (Benidoleig).
- The llidoner to make handles of aixà, rudders and cametes de forcat (Benissa).
Flowering time: March to April Life forms: Macrophyte (Macrofaneròfit). Habitats: Garden plants. Damp, non-saline areas (watercourses, ponds, streams, canals, fountains and irrigation channels). It is an ornamental tree, ideal for avenues and for providing shade, which can live up to 5 or 6 centuries. Features: Deciduous tree that can reach 25m in height, with almost smooth, lead-white grey bark. The leaves are simple, alternate, slightly asymmetrical, oval to lanceolate, with pointed, long petioles and finely serrated margins. The obverse side of the leaf is dark green with hairs that give it a certain roughness, with three more prominent veins than the rest, and a lighter and pubescent reverse side. The fruit is round and smooth, about the size of a pea, green at first and almost black at the end, an edible stone fruit with a lot of stone and little flesh. Information taken from the website http://herbarivirtual.uib.es/ and from Pellicer, Joan (2000). Costumari Botànic. Edicions del Bullent. |