Description: Also called locust tree, can grow up to 40 meters high and has particularly hard wood which is popular for furniture, flooring and decoration.
Common Name: West Indian Locust
Family: Fabaceae
Habitats: Found in a wide range of habitats including tropical dry forest, transition to premontane moist forest, and tropical wet forest as well as subtropical moist forest.
Range: S. America - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas; C. America - Panama to southern Mexico; Caribbean.
Minimal Planting Area: 20 SQM
Hymenaea courbaril. Guapino – slow growing
Also called locust tree, can grow up to 40 meters high and has particularly hard wood which is popular for furniture, flooring and decoration. Its fruits, a kind of pod, are equally hard and the pulp they contain is edible. Its sap, called animé, is used for incense, perfume and varnish.
In natural medicine it is used as an antiparasitic and for stomach ailments.
