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Lecythis pisonis
About
Lecythis pisonis, the cream nut or monkey pot, is a tropical tree in the Brazil nut family Lecythidaceae. It is known in its native tropical America as sapucaia or castanha-de-sapucaia. The fruit is shaped like a cooking pot and contains edible seeds.
- Family
- Lecythidaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Lecythis pisonis
- Slug
- lecythis-pisonis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lecythidaceae
- Genus
- Lecythis
- Species
- pisonis
- Wikidata QID
- Q1387987
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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