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pachira_aquatica
Bombacopsis glabra Cocoa from Guyana. Wild cocoa. Chestnut from Guyana. Hazelnut cayenne. Malabar nuts. Pachira. Aquatic pachira. Pachirier. Pistachio shrub. Malagasy pistachio.
Family: bombacaceae
Origin:
Native to Central America (North Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru) and Mexico.
Synonyms: * Pachira glabra Pasq. * Pachira aquatica Aubl. * Bombax aquaticum (Aubl.) Schum. Use (s): It is a tree commonly sold in garden centers in metropolitan France. Its rapid growth makes it a good specimen to be cut into bonsai. The seeds have a peanut or cocoa taste and are consumed raw, roasted or boiled; in the latter case, their taste is similar to that of the European chestnut. Young leaves and flowers are also edible. Bombacopsis glabra has medicinal properties: in its regions of origin, it is used in the treatment of diabetes.
Biology:
A shrub with a great adaptability, the cayenne hazel thrives in both dry and humid tropical zones (river banks) at low and medium altitudes (up to 700 m). Hardy, semi-shade species, preferably in the shelter of the wind. It is a tree that multiplies very easily by seeds. Around the mother tree we can observe many seedlings. It is a tree that multiplies like gremlins. Some seeds germinate while they are still locked in the capsule. The seeds contain up to 3 embryos, which is why several roots of a single seed emerge. Seedlings grow very fast. Particularity: The Pistache shrubs like the Brachychiton are trees with a green bark.
Description:
Fast-growing, round-shaped tree shrub with soft, spongy, water-containing wood (hence the term "aquatica"), swollen trunk at the base, and horizontal lateral branches. Bark smooth, greenish (see more pictures) Persistent foliage Leaves shiny, greyish below, compound webbed (30 cm), with five to seven oval-elliptic leaflets Very scented flowering Large flowers (10 cm) cream-white , greenish-white or whitish-yellow, opening at night and falling in the morning Green calyx with welded and persistent sepals, numerous thick petals in deciduous strands Ten phalanges of stamina prominent and silky, reddish, fused into a staminal tube blooming into a perfumed and deciduous bouquet in one piece The fruit is a woody capsule, initially greenish, then brown, opening in five valves, each containing six to ten large, roundish, russet-shaped seeds. ntourées of a kind of cotton wool, edible.
Family: bombacaceae
Origin:
Native to Central America (North Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru) and Mexico.
Synonyms: * Pachira glabra Pasq. * Pachira aquatica Aubl. * Bombax aquaticum (Aubl.) Schum. Use (s): It is a tree commonly sold in garden centers in metropolitan France. Its rapid growth makes it a good specimen to be cut into bonsai. The seeds have a peanut or cocoa taste and are consumed raw, roasted or boiled; in the latter case, their taste is similar to that of the European chestnut. Young leaves and flowers are also edible. Bombacopsis glabra has medicinal properties: in its regions of origin, it is used in the treatment of diabetes.
Biology:
A shrub with a great adaptability, the cayenne hazel thrives in both dry and humid tropical zones (river banks) at low and medium altitudes (up to 700 m). Hardy, semi-shade species, preferably in the shelter of the wind. It is a tree that multiplies very easily by seeds. Around the mother tree we can observe many seedlings. It is a tree that multiplies like gremlins. Some seeds germinate while they are still locked in the capsule. The seeds contain up to 3 embryos, which is why several roots of a single seed emerge. Seedlings grow very fast. Particularity: The Pistache shrubs like the Brachychiton are trees with a green bark.
Description:
Fast-growing, round-shaped tree shrub with soft, spongy, water-containing wood (hence the term "aquatica"), swollen trunk at the base, and horizontal lateral branches. Bark smooth, greenish (see more pictures) Persistent foliage Leaves shiny, greyish below, compound webbed (30 cm), with five to seven oval-elliptic leaflets Very scented flowering Large flowers (10 cm) cream-white , greenish-white or whitish-yellow, opening at night and falling in the morning Green calyx with welded and persistent sepals, numerous thick petals in deciduous strands Ten phalanges of stamina prominent and silky, reddish, fused into a staminal tube blooming into a perfumed and deciduous bouquet in one piece The fruit is a woody capsule, initially greenish, then brown, opening in five valves, each containing six to ten large, roundish, russet-shaped seeds. ntourées of a kind of cotton wool, edible.