Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
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.
Guilandina bonduc L. 1753 – grey nicker, knicker nut (pantropical) Guilandina caymanensis (Millsp.) Britton & Rose (Cayman Islands) Guilandina ciliata Bergius ex Wikstrom – broadpad nicker (Caribbean) Guilandina culebrae Britton & Wilson ex Britton & Rose – smooth yellow nicker (Puerto Rico) Guilandina delphinensis (Du Puy & R.Rabev.)
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
Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia. It is known also as the peacock flower subfamily. [5] The Caesalpinioideae are mainly trees distributed in the moist tropics, but include such temperate species as the honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus). It has the following clade-based definition:
The hostplants for the species include Caesalpinia bonduc, Derris elliptica, and Moullava spicata. References This ...
Caesalpinia, as traditionally circumscribed, was paraphyletic, so it was recently recircumscribed to produce many new genera: [9] Caesalpinioideae: Cassieae ...