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Hymenaea altissima

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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.

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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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