Phytolacca dioica

Phytolacca dioica, commonly known as ombú in Spanish and umbu in Portuguese, is a massive evergreen tree in the Pokeweed Family (Phytolaccaceae) native to the Pampas of South America. As its specific epithet suggests, it is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. The flowers are pollinated by the butterfly Doxocopa laurentia. It has an umbrella-like canopy that spreads to a diameter of 12 to 15 meters (39 to 49 ft) and can attain a height of 12 to 18 meters (39 to 59 ft). This upper growth springs up from a tuberous caudex which, according to Everett "may occupy a circle sixty feet [18 meters] in diameter". One tree of such a size—mentioned by Anglo-Argentine writer William Henry Hudson in his autobiography Far Away and Long Ago—was 50 feet (15 m) girth above the caudex. Another large specimen, observed in 1867 by David Christison, at Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, measured "32 feet (9.8 m) in girth...clear of the projecting buttresses". Because it is derived f......read more on Wikipedia.