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Hura crepitans, the sandbox tree, [2] also known as possumwood, monkey no-climb, assacu (from Tupi asaku) and jabillo, [3] is an evergreen tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical regions of North and South America including the Amazon rainforest. It is also present in parts of Tanzania, where it is considered an invasive species. [4]
In 1783, Johann Gerhard König used the name Hura to refer to a very different plant from the one Linnaeus had named. Thus was created an illegitimate homonym. [8] [9] Under the rules of nomenclature, Koenig's name had to be abandoned.
Other tree species offered in the sale include: Long Regal Prince Oak, Scarlet Curls Willow, Lindsey's Skyward Bald Cypress, and Cascade Falls Weeping Bald Cypress.
Possumwood may refer to various trees: Diospyros virginiana (American persimmon), in warm-temperate North America; Hura crepitans (sandbox tree), in the tropical Americas; Quintinia sieberi, a rainforest tree of eastern Australia
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Ceiba speciosa, the floss silk tree (formerly Chorisia speciosa), is a species of deciduous tree that is native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America.It has several local common names, such as palo borracho (in Spanish literally "drunken stick"), or árbol del puente, samu'ũ (in Guarani), or paineira (in Brazilian Portuguese).
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