Cordia

The taxonomy of Cordia is complex and controversial. Gottschling et al. (2005) say this is partly due to "extraordinarily high intraspecific variability" in some groups of species, making identification difficult, and partly due to new taxa having been "airily described on the basis of poorly preserved herbarium specimens".{{Cite journal |last1=Gottschling |first1=Marc |last2=Miller |first2=James S. |last3=Weigend |first3=Maximilian |last4=Hilger |first4=Hartmut H. |date=2005-10-01 |title=Congruence of a Phylogeny of Cordiaceae (Boraginales) Inferred from ITS1 Sequence Data with Morphology, Ecology, and Biogeography |journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |volume=92 |issue=3 |pages=425–437 |jstor=40035480 |name-list-style=amp }}

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• Cordia africana Lam. – White manjack
• Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken – Spanish elm, Ecuador laurel, salmwood, bocote (Neotropics){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjc5ZYWtkNAC |title=Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees |first=Miroslav M. |last=Grandtner |volume=1 |publisher=Elsevier |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-444-51784-5 |pages=252–260}}
• Cordia boissieri A.DC. – Anacahuita, Texas olive (southern Texas, Northern Mexico)
• Cordia curassavica (Jacq.) Roem. & Schult. – Black sage, wild sage
• Cordia dentata Poir. – White manjack
• Cordia dichotoma G.Forst – Fragrant manjack, bird lime tree (Tropical Asia and Australasia){{cite web |url=http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/acc_num/198500500.html |title=Cordia dichotoma Forst. f. |work=Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities |publisher=University of Connecticut |date=2009-10-06 |access-date=2009-10-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515210142/http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/acc_num/198500500.html |archive-date=2008-05-15 }}
• Cordia leucophlyctis {{small|Hook f.}} – (endemic to the Galápagos Islands)
• Cordia lutea {{small|Lam.}} – Yellow cordia (western South America, including the Galápagos Islands)
• Cordia monoica
• Cordia myxa L. – Assyrian plum (South Asia)
  Cordia domestica is treated as a separate species by some sources, and as C. myxa var. domestica by others.{{cite web |title=Cordia domestica |work=The Plant List |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2736727 |access-date=2015-06-26}} Cordia obliqua {{small|Willd.}} (the clammy cherry) has been placed in the "Cordia myxa complex",{{GRIN | Cordia obliqua | 11491 | accessdate = 2015-06-26}} or treated as a synonym for Cordia dichotoma.{{cite web |title=Cordia obliqua |work=The Plant List |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2737055 |access-date=2015-06-26}}
• Cordia platythyrsa Baker – West African cordia
• Cordia rupicola Urban – Puerto Rico manjack (Puerto Rico)
• Cordia sebestena L. – Geiger tree, large-leaf Geigertree (southern Florida, Greater Antilles, Central America)
• Cordia sinensis Lam. (=C. gharaf) – Grey-leafed saucerberry
• Cordia subcordata Lam. – Kou, tou, marer (Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, Pacific Islands)
• Cordia sulcata DC. – Mucilage manjack, laylay, white manjack, wild clammy cherry
• Cordia trichotoma (Vell.) Arráb. ex Steud.

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• Carmona retusa (Vahl) Masam. (as C. retusa Vahl){{cite web |url=https://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?2921 |title=Species Records of Cordia|work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2010-08-21}}

Cordia species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera species, such as Endoclita malabaricus, Bucculatrix caribbea, and Bucculatrix cordiaella.{{cite journal |url=http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13796205 |first=Donald R. |last=Davis |author2=Bernard Landry |author3=Lazaro Roque-albelo |title=Two new Neotropical species of Bucculatrix leaf miners (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) reared from Cordia (Boraginaceae) |journal=Revue suisse de Zoologie |volume=109 |issue=2 |year=2002 |pages=277–294 |doi=10.5962/bhl.part.79591|doi-access=free }} The wild olive tortoise beetle (Physonota alutacea) feeds on C. boissieri, C. dentata, C. inermis, and C. macrostachya.{{cite web |url=http://www.texasento.net/Physonota.htm |first=Mike |last=Quinn |title=Wild Olive Tortoise Beetle Physonota alutacea Boheman, 1854 |work=Texas Beetle Information |publisher=Texas Entomology |access-date=2010-04-05}}

Many members of this genus have fragrant, showy flowers and are popular in gardens, although they are not especially hardy.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pulmonariasborag00benn |url-access=registration |title=Pulmonarias and the Borage Family |first=Masha |last=Bennett |year=2003 |publisher=Timber Press |isbn=978-0-88192-589-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/pulmonariasborag00benn/page/196 196]–198}}

A number of the tropical species have edible fruits, known by a wide variety of names including clammy cherries, glue berries, sebesten, or snotty gobbles. In India, the fruits of local species are used as a vegetable, raw, cooked, or pickled, and are known by many names, including lasora in Hindi. One such species is fragrant manjack (C. dichotoma), which is called gunda or tenti dela in Hindi and lasura in Nepali. The fruit of the fragrant manjack is called phoà-pò·-chí (破布子), 樹子仔, or 樹子(Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiū-chí) in Taiwan where they are eaten pickled.

The white, gooey inner pulp of the fruits is traditionally used to make glue.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

The wood of several Cordia species is commercially harvested. Ecuador laurel (C. alliodora), ziricote (C. dodecandra), Spanish elm (C. gerascanthus), and C. goeldiana are used to make furniture and doors in Central and South America.

Ziricotehttp://www.lmii.com/CartTwo/thirdproducts.asp?CategoryName=+Backs+and+Sides&NameProdHeader=Ziricote Luthiers Mercantile page about Ziricote and bocotehttp://www.lmii.com/CartTwo/thirdproducts.asp?CategoryName=+Backs+and+Sides&NameProdHeader=Bocote Luthiers Mercantile page about Ziricote are sometimes used as tonewoods for making the backs and sides of high-end acoustic guitars such as the Richard Thompson signature model from Lowden.{{cite journal |url=http://www.richardthompson-music.com/docs/Guitar%20Player.pdf |first=Anil |last=Presad |title=Richard Thompson |journal=Guitar Player |date=October 2009 |page=50 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610003500/http://www.richardthompson-music.com/docs/Guitar%20Player.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-10 }} Similarly, drums are made from C. abyssinica, C. millenii, and C. platythyrsa due to the resonance of the wood.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lUvmxt3_OGgC |first=Colin |last=Tudge |title=The Tree |publisher=Random House |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-307-39539-9 |page=237}}

Cordia leaves can be dried and used to smoke marijuana with.{{Cite web|date=2021-01-13|title=Why leaf pre-rolled cones make the cleanest, tobacco-free blunts|url=https://www.leafly.com/news/strains-products/leaf-cones-make-cleanest-tobacco-free-blunts|access-date=2021-01-14|website=Leafly|language=en-US}}

Image:Cordia sinensis.jpg| C. sinensis foliage and fruit.

Image:Cordia sinensis trees.jpg|C. sinensis trees.

Image:Cordia_goetzei_@_Lake_Manyara_NP_HQ.JPG|Fruits of Cordia goetzei

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Category:Fruit vegetables

Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

Category:Boraginaceae genera