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Maclura pomifera has many common names, including mock orange, hedge apple, hedge ball, monkey ball, pap, monkey brains and yellow-wood. The name bois d'arc (French, meaning "bow-wood") has also been corrupted into bodark and bodock. [11] [12] [13]
Gomphocarpus physocarpus, commonly known as hairy balls, balloonplant, balloon cotton-bush, bishop's balls, nailhead, or swan plant, [2] is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae, related to the milkweeds. The plant is native to southeast Africa, but it has been widely naturalized as it is often used as an ornamental plant.
American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as American storax, [3] hazel pine, [4] bilsted, [5] redgum, [3] satin-walnut, [3] star-leaved gum, [5] alligatorwood, [3] gumball tree, [6] or simply sweetgum, [3] [7] is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central America.
Hura crepitans, the sandbox tree, [2] also known as possumwood, monkey no-climb, assacu (from Tupi asaku) and jabillo, [3] is an evergreen tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical regions of North and South America including the Amazon rainforest. It is also present in parts of Tanzania, where it is considered an invasive species. [4]
Araucaria araucana, commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, piñonero, pewen or pehuen pine, is an evergreen tree growing to a trunk diameter of 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) and a height of 30–40 m (98–131 ft).
There's a tree in your backyard that produces spiked round balls, and you have no idea what it is. We can help you identify it, and explain the purpose of those odd seed pods it drops.
Couroupita guianensis, known by a variety of common names including cannonball tree, [3] is a deciduous tree in the flowering plant family Lecythidaceae.It is native to lowland tropical rainforests of Central and South America, from Costa Rica, south to Brazil and northern Bolivia [1] and it is cultivated in many other tropical areas throughout the world because of its fragrant flowers and ...
The tree locust bean is also known as "arbre à farine, fern leaf, irú, monkey cutlass tree, two ball nitta-tree, nété and néré "). The use of fermented locust beans in West Africa was documented as early as the 14th century, [7] and described by Michel Adanson in his Histoire naturelle du Sénégal, published in 1757. [8]