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Hymenaea courbaril, the courbaril or West Indian locust, [3] is a hardwood tree common in the Caribbean and Central and South America. As lumber it is frequently used to make furniture, flooring, and decoration. Its hard fruit pods have an edible dry pulp surrounding the seeds. Its sap, called animé, is used for incense, perfume, and varnish.
Growing Zones for Containers: 7 and lower. Size: 8 to 10 feet in containers. Growing conditions: Full sun; sandy, well drained soil; keep consistently moist but not overwatered during the growing ...
Site your chaste tree in full sun, where it gets a minimum of 6 hours of direct sun each day. While it will grow with less sun, it will not flower nearly as well. While it will grow with less sun ...
Container gardening or pot gardening/farming is the practice of growing plants, including edible plants, exclusively in containers instead of planting them in the ground. [1] A container in gardening is a small, enclosed and usually portable object used for displaying live flowers or plants.
The flowers of this species are the largest in the genus, and the petals are somewhat larger than the sepals. The five sepals are thick and are deflected when the flowers have opened. The five white petals are approximately 22 mm (0.87 in) long and 12 mm (0.47 in) wide and are set on the edge of a broad hypanthium. Ten free, white, 40 mm (1.6 ...
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Hymenaea is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae. Of the fourteen living species in the genus, all but one are native to the tropics of the Americas, with one additional species (Hymenaea verrucosa) on the east coast of Africa. Some authors place the African species in a separate monotypic genus, Trachylobium. [2]
Replacing the tree in a bonsai pot will slow or halt the tree's growth, and may lead to die-back if the volume of foliage is too great for the limited root system to support. Managing the tree's available soil volume allows the grower to manage the overall size of the bonsai, and to increase vigor and growth when new branches are required for a ...