The micocoulier of Provence ( Celtis australis L.) is a tropical Arbre familiar of the areas are or moderate be. He belongs to the family of the Cannabaceae (in the past with the Ulmaceae ).

Description

Reaching 25 m, the micocoulier is a Tree ornamental Diploïde Caduque appreciated in the Mediterranean landscape .

Hurled and regular, the Trunk which easily reaches 1 m diameter, shows at the base important buttresses.

Its Feuille S is rèches and resembles that of the Ortie. In English besides, the tree is called " tree with ortie".

The Fruit S are fleshy (Drupe S) and edible. They are named micocoule S and one aromatizes a alcohol of it.

Use

While its wood is appropriate perfectly for the clothes industry of handles of Outil S, its remarkably flexible branches provide a material particularly adapted to the manufacture of handles of Fouet S, stick, canes and riding crops. For this employment, the tree is sprinkled to accelerate the growth of it. The branches are split to preserve of it only the circumference whose plates are still softened with the vapor before being braided.

The foliage could be used as Fourrage formerly and the root provided a yellow Teinture.

Local arts and crafts

There remains with Sorède, in the surroundings of Perpignan, a workshop which is perhaps the last in the world to work the micocoulier as one did it as of the 13th century in the area. While with Saves, in the Gard, the micocoulier is still cultivated for the traditional manufacture of the Fourche S.

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