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Guilandina bonduc leaves. It is a liana that reaches a length of 6 m (20 ft) or more and scrambles over other vegetation. The stems are covered in curved spines. [6] Guilandina bonduc grows as a climber, up to 8 m (30 ft) long or as a large sprawling shrub or small shrubby tree. The stems are irregularly covered with curved prickles.
Caesalpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 10 species which range from southeastern Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, and to Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Bahamas.
The Fabales are an order of flowering plants included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system. In the APG II circumscription, this order includes the families Fabaceae or legumes (including the subfamilies Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoideae, and Faboideae), Quillajaceae, Polygalaceae or milkworts (including the families Diclidantheraceae ...
The genus Guilandina comprises the following species: [3] [1]. Guilandina barkeriana (Urb. & Ekman) Britton (Cuba and Haiti); Guilandina bonduc L. 1753 – grey nicker, knicker nut (pantropical)
Nickernuts in fruit from G. bonduc. Nickernuts or nickar nuts are smooth, shiny seeds from tropical leguminous shrubs, particularly Guilandina bonduc and Guilandina major, [1] both known by the common name warri tree. C. bonduc produces gray nickernuts, and C. major produces yellow.
Grey nickernut (Caesalpinia bonduc) 3. a,b Colour forms of ox-eye beans (Mucuna gigantea) Caesalpinia bonduc – grey nickernut; Caesalpinia major – yellow nickernut; Carapa guianensis – crabwood (New World tropics) Entada gigas – seaheart, (New World tropics) Entada rheedii – snuff box sea bean, from the tropics of the Indian Ocean
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