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Hymenaea altissima
About
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 on the east coast of Africa. Some authors place the African species in a separate monotypic genus, Trachylobium. In the Neotropics, Hymenaea is distributed through the Caribbean islands, and from southern Mexico to Brazil. Linnaeus named the genus in 1753 in Species Plantarum for Hymenaios, the Greek god of marriage ceremonies. The name is a reference to the paired leaflets.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Hymenaea altissima
- Slug
- hymenaea-altissima
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Hymenaea
- Species
- altissima
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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