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CECROPIA

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 594 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CECROPIA , in botany, a genus of trees (natural order Moraceae), native of tropical America. They are of very rapid growth, affording a light
wood
  used for making floats. C. peltata is the trumpet tree, so-called from the use made of its hollow stems by the Uaupe Indians as a musical
instrument
 . It is a tree reaching about 5o ft. in height with a large spreading head, and deeply lobed leaves 12 in. or more in
diameter
 . The hollows of the stem and branches are inhabited by ants, which in return for the shelter thus afforded, and food in the form of succulent growths on the base of the
leaf
 -stalks, repel the attacks of
leaf
 -cutting ants which would otherwise strip the tree of its leaves. This is an instance of "myrmecophily," i.e. a living together for, mutual benefit of the ants and the plant.


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