English: Trumpet tree; Snakewood; Pumpwood.
Spanish: yarumo, yagrumo, yagrumo hembra = female yagrumo.
Genus: 25 species.
Region: Americas.
Habitat: tropical.
Culture: named after Cecrops I, the mythical first king of Athens.
DD: Didymopanax ,yagrumo macho, male yagrumo.
BotanyType: tree, symbiotic with ants.
Leaves: circular; palmate, deeply divided into 7 to 11 lobes; large, about 30–40 cm in diameter.
Flower: fully enclosed by spathes until anthesis; dense indumenta (trichilia) producing Müllerian bodies (food) at the base of the petiole; anthers becoming detached at anthesis.
TaxonomyCecropia was formerly placed in Cecropiaceae or
Moraceae.