Описание: Также называемое акация, может вырасти до 40 метров в высоту и имеет особенно твердую древесину, которая популярна для изготовления мебели, напольных покрытий и отделки.
Распространенное имя: West Indian Locust
Семья: Бобовые
Места обитания: 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.
Спектр: S. America - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas; C. America - Panama to southern Mexico; Caribbean.
Минимальная площадь посадки: 20 кв.м.
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.
