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Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia is a small tree in the family Proteaceae. Common names include red bopple nut, monkey nut, red nut, beef nut, rose nut and ivory silky oak. [3] [4] The tree produces fleshy, red fruits during spring and summer. The rare species is native to subtropical rainforest in parts of Australia. The seeds are edible.
The fruit is a dark red nut when young and turns black. [1] The peel is woody. [1] It can grow up straight or branched from the soil, making up either a tree or a shrub. [1] The name Gevuina comes from guevin, the Mapuche Indigenous name for the Chilean hazel. [3]
Brachychiton rupestris (commonly known as the narrow-leaved bottle tree or Queensland bottle tree) is a tree in the family Malvaceae, [a] endemic to Queensland, Australia. Described by Sir Thomas Mitchell and John Lindley in 1848, it earned its name from its bulbous trunk , which can be up to 3.5 metres (11 ft) in diameter at breast height (DBH).
Pachira aquatica is a tropical wetland tree in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to Central and South America where it grows in swamps. It is known by its common names Malabar chestnut, French peanut, Guiana chestnut, Provision tree, Saba nut, Monguba (), Pumpo and Jelinjoche and is commercially sold under the names Money tree and Money plant.
Tree Hut products claim to provide "intense moisture" through shea butter and oil, an ingredient used in all of their products. [ 1 ] The brand was launched in March 2002, beginning with Shea Body Butter in various flavors, and has since extended into a full line of shea-based skin care products, including body scrub, body wash, and body lotion.
The tree's large woody gourd-like fruits with edible white flesh are used for water vessels and for ornamental purposes. The fruit is called 'monkey pot', a name used for a number of other species, including Lecythis elliptica, Lecythis grandiflora, and Lecythis pisonis. The name is said to derive from baiting an empty fruit with food and ...
The heartnut is a cultivar of Japanese walnut distinguished by its fruit, which is heart-shaped in cross-section, very hard to crack, and able to yield unbroken nut meat when cracked. The heartnut is a sweet nut without a bitter aftertaste often intrinsic with black and Persian walnuts.
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.