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The Brazil nut is a large tree, reaching 50 metres (160 feet) tall, [15] and with a trunk 1 to 2 m (3 to 7 ft) in diameter, making it among the largest of trees in the Amazon rainforest. It may live for 500 years or more, and can often reach a thousand years of age. [ 16 ]
The tropical rainforest tree Couepia longipendula is known by the common names egg nut, castanha de galinha, and pendula nut. It is found in the Amazon . Its nuts are used as a food source in rural South America, especially in Brazil .
Barringtonia acutangula (Freshwater Mangrove) fruits in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Careya arborea in Narsapur, Medak district, India.. The Lecythidaceae (/ ˌ l ɛ s ɪ θ ɪ ˈ d eɪ ʃ iː / LESS-ith-ih-DAY-shee) comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250–300 species of woody plants native to tropical South America, Africa (including Madagascar), Asia and Australia.
[11] [18] Other species commonly mistaken for chestnut trees are the chestnut oak (Quercus prinus) and the American beech (Fagus grandifolia), [21] [7] both of which are also in the Fagaceae family. Brazil nuts, called "Brasil chestnuts" (castañas de Brasil in Spanish) or "chestnuts from Pará" (castanha-do-Pará in Portuguese) are also unrelated.
Couepia longipendula (chicken-nut, egg nut, pendula nut) Couepia subcordata (umarirana) Couma utilis (sorvinha) Crataeva tapia (tapia) Dicella nucifera (castanha-de-cipó) Diospyros brasiliensis (bull's eye) Diospyros hispida (caqui-do-cerrado) Diospyros inconstans (marmelinho) Dipteryx alata (baru, cumbaru, cumbaru) Duguetia furfuracea ...
Lecythis pisonis, the cream nut or monkey pot, is a tropical tree in the Brazil nut family Lecythidaceae. [1] It is known in its native tropical America as sapucaia or castanha-de-sapucaia . The fruit is shaped like a cooking pot and contains edible seeds.
Some of the species within the genus Caryocar have edible fruits, called souari-nuts or sawarri-nuts. [5] The most well-known species is probably the Pekea-nut ( C. nuciferum ). In Brazil the Pequi ( C. brasiliense ) is most popular; it has a variety of uses, not the least among them being the production of pequi oil .
A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible. In general usage and in a culinary sense, many dry seeds are called nuts, but in a botanical context, "nut" implies that the shell does not open to release the seed ( indehiscent ).