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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.
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 ...
Many trees bear edible nuts which can loosely be described as being large, oily kernels found inside a hard shell. These include coconuts ( Cocos nucifera ), Brazil nuts ( Bertholletia excelsa ), pecans ( Carya illinoinensis ), hazel nuts ( Corylus ), almonds ( Prunus dulcis ), walnuts ( Juglans regia ), pistachios ( Pistacia vera ) and many ...
Caryocar (souari trees) is a genus of flowering plants, in the South American family Caryocaraceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1771. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is native primarily to South America with a few species extending into Central America and the West Indies.
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.
The paradise nut is a large rainforest tree with spreading branches. It is in the same family ( Lecythidaceae ) as the Brazil nut tree ( Bertholletia excelsa ) and has a similar fruit. This is a large woody capsule up to twelve inches (thirty cm) in diameter and very heavy, [ 2 ] with a lid which bursts open when the seeds are ripe.