Dimorphandra pullei
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Field Museum of Natural History - Botany Department | GDI 2013-2015
Field Museum of Natural History - Botany Department | GDI 2013-2015
What to Eat
Edible parts: Pulp, Fruit
The brownish pulp inside the fruit pods is edible.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant. It grows in rainforest on granite.
Amazon, Brazil, French Guiana, Guianas, South America, Suriname,
How to Identify
A tree. It grows 50 m tall. The young twigs have soft brown hairs. The leaves are compound. The leaflets are divided. The flowers are in dense spikes with rusty hairs. The fruit is a narrow pod. It is 20-24 cm long by 3.5-4.5 cm wide and 0.5-0.7 cm thick. There are fine veins across the pod. The seeds are 1.5 cm long 0.6 cm wide and 0.4 cm thick. The brownish pulp is edible.
Notes
Also as Caesalpinaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Fava-uim-amarela, Para, Pesie-oedoe
Dimorphandra multiflora
References (2)
- Grandtner, M. M. & Chevrette, J., 2013, Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press p 201
- van Roosmalen, M.G.M., 1985, Fruits of the Guianan Flora. Utrecht Univ. & Wageningen Univ. p 186
