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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.
Hymenaea stiginocarpa is an irregularly shaped, mostly 6–9 m (20–30 ft) high tree that has been assigned to the pea family. It has a twisted spindle-shaped trunk, a very rough grey bark, and reddish-brown twigs. The deciduous leaves consist of two large asymmetrical leaflets with an entire margin.
The trees also make hard resins that are used to manufacture varnish, especially the resin from Hymenaea courbaril (jatobá) in Brazil. The resin that is produced in Brazil is known as South American copal, and Hymenaea verrucosa is the source of the valuable Zanzibar copal. Resin may be collected from living trees, or from the soil near the ...
Hymenaea courbaril, tree common to the Caribbean, Central, and South America; Jatobá, Maranhão, municipality in Brazil; Jatobá, Pernambuco, city in Brazil; Jatobá Hydroelectric Power Plant, planned hydroelectric plant on the Tapajós river in Brazil; Jatobá do Piauí, municipality in Brazil; Jatobá River, river in eastern Brazil
Bloodwood is a common name for several unrelated trees, including: Baloghia inophylla (Brush or Scrub bloodwood), Baloghia marmorata (Marbled bloodwood), Baloghia parviflora (Small-flowered bloodwood), all found in Australia; Brosimum rubescens, a tree found in Central and South America
A jaboticaba [3] (/d͡ʒæbɒtɪˈkɑːbə/), spelled jabuticaba in Portuguese, is a round, edible fruit produced by a jaboticaba tree (Plinia cauliflora), also known as Brazilian grapetree. The purplish-black, white-pulped fruit grows directly on the trunk of the tree, making it an example of ' cauliflory '.
Phytelephas is a genus containing six known species of dioecious [3] palms (family Arecaceae), occurring from southern Panama along the Andes to Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, northwestern Brazil, and Peru.
annatto (tree species), wood for making fire: Bixa orellana *mekuʔ: crab *mem: red, ripe *mikop: paca *mit ʃ em: black *mo: to run *mokon: rope, cord, string, thread *mom: to swell because of illness, to have a tumor *moɾoʔ: flour *mowaw ʔ: tucumã palm larva: broca do tucumã: larva of Astrocaryum aculeatum *mowin: pus, infection, tumour ...