#Lecythidaceae
Couroupita guianensis
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia,
October 2025
#CouroupitaGuianensis #CannonballTree
#Lecythidaceae #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #BotanicGardens #plants #botany #garden #PublicGarden #flowers #FlowerReport
October 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Barringtonia acutangula
Lecythidaceae
(Freshwater Mangrove)
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, October 2025
#BarringtoniaAcutangula #Lecythidaceae #FreshwaterMangrove #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #botany
#ozflora #NativeFlora #photography #bluesky
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Barringtonia calyptrata(2)
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia
Oct 2025
#BarringtoniaCalyptrata #Lecythidaceae #CassowaryPine #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #botany #ozflora #NativeFlora #photography #bluesky #photographyofbluesky
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
January 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Couroupita guianensis
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia,
17th Nov '25
#CouroupitaGuianensis #CannonballTree
#Lecythidaceae #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #BotanicGardens #plants #botany #garden #PublicGarden #flowers #FlowerReport
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Barringtonia calyptrata(1)
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia
Oct 2025
#BarringtoniaCalyptrata #Lecythidaceae #CassowaryPine #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #botany #ozflora #NativeFlora #photography #bluesky #photographyofbluesky
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It took a while to identify this beautiful flower on a tree.

Barringtonia asiatica, also known as the sea poison tree or fish poison tree, a tropical coastal species belonging to the Lecythidaceae family.

Having thought about it, I can't recall seeing it during previous visits.
🌱🌸

📍Bombay
August 8, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Couroupita guianensis
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
North Queensland, Australia
(Native to Panama -Tropical South America)
#Couroupita #Lecythidaceae #Cauliflory #CannonballTree #AndersonGardens #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #plants #botany #garden #PublicGarden
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Our Observation of the Day is this flowering Napoleonaea vogelii plant, seen in Liberia by careljongkind!

This species is in the Lecythidaceae family, which also includes the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa).

More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
March 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I have a bowl of seeds/fruits picked up from beaches in Florida & Asia. My carpological collection includes Manicaria saccifera (#Arecaceae), Heritiera littoralis (#Malvaceae), Barringtonia acutangula (#Lecythidaceae) & Sacoglottis amazonica (#Humiriaceae). #hydrochory #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪
February 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Pl@ntNet identifie (à 80.29%) Couroupita guianensis (fam Lecythidaceae) com. Arbre à boulet de canon, Calabasse Colin, Abricot-macaque

#BeSPlantnet #IndentificationDePlantes
June 16, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Taxonomia
Reino: Plantae
Filo: Tracheophyta
Classe: Magnoliopsida
Ordem: Ericales
Família: Lecythidaceae
Gênero: Cariniana

376 registros no Brasil · 475 no mundo
Fonte: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/190294
Cariniana legalis
Cariniana legalis is a species of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family. It is found in south-eastern Brazil, where is known as jequitibá-branco or jequitibá-rosa, possibly Colombia, and possibly Ve...
www.inaturalist.org
August 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
O abricó-de-macaco (Couroupita guianensis Aubl.; Lecythidaceae) é uma espécie de árvore originária da Amazônia que tem frutos redondos que pendem em cachos e flores exuberantes.
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In honor of Bat Week, let’s look at pollination (#chiropterophily) and seed dispersal by bats. Here’s Barringtonia edulis (#Lecythidaceae) in the Solomon Islands whose pale, ropy inflorescences are easily accessed by bats feeding on nectar. 🦇 #TropicalBotany #BatWeek 🌾🧪🌱 #botany
October 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Bonus #Lecythidaceae post: The fruits of Lecythis pisonis open to release hard seeds. Secondarily dispersed is by animals. Photo 1 shows the empty capsules hanging from the tree. Photo 2 is the lid. #Lecythidaceae #zoochory #dispersal #TropicalBotany 📷: Tarciso Leão CCBY2 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
July 7, 2024 at 1:47 PM
"Climate warming increasingly disrupts plant–pollinator interactions through changes in floral chemical cues, particularly volatile organic compounds."

Read about plant–pollinator interactions under #climate warming in the tropics.

🧪 #Science #Biology #Ecology
academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
July 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Lecythis minor produces tasty nuts in which Se hyperaccumulates. The toxic effects on humans include nausea, vomiting, hair & nail loss, & a peculiar breath & body odor that lingers for days after eating the nuts. 📷: Santiago Madriñán CCBYNC4 #Lecythidaceae #selenium #heavymetal #Botany 🌾🧪
July 24, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Taxonomia
Reino: Plantae
Filo: Tracheophyta
Classe: Magnoliopsida
Ordem: Ericales
Família: Lecythidaceae
Gênero: Lecythis

425 registros no Brasil · 546 no mundo
Fonte: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/85097
Lecythis pisonis
Lecythis pisonis (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 shape...
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August 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
The flowers of Gustavia superba are radially symmetrical and have incurved stamens (a synapomorphy for this subfamily, Lecythidoideae). They are cauliflorous, i.e. borne on trunks and branches. #Lecythidaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
July 2, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Barringtonia racemosa is not without petals, but they’re mostly hidden behind the glorious stamens. These flowers are pollinated by large bats in tropical Africa, s. Asia, New Guinea & Queensland, Australia. #Lecythidaceae #stamenflowers #stamen #pollination #bats #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
May 22, 2024 at 11:03 AM
I posted the strange flower of Couroupita guianensis earlier, but the tree is equally strange: It has dimorphic branches. Erect, “normal” branches form the tree’s crown. Pendulous, flower-bearing branches grow from the trunk below the crown. #Lecythidaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
July 3, 2024 at 11:07 AM
El levantamiento andino y la biogeografía histórica de la familia de la nuez de Brasil.
Lecythidaceae se diversificó durante el Mioceno. La mayoría de especies conservaron nichos en la selva de tierras bajas, pero varios linajes se desplazaron hacia los andes.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 24, 2026 at 2:33 PM
The fruits of #Lecythidaceae are as diverse as the flowers. Barringtonia asiatica has fibrous drupes that float on ocean currents in the Indian Ocean. They are common drift fruits of the region. #hydrochory #dispersal #TropicalBotany 📷: William Terry Hunefeld CCBY4. #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
July 3, 2024 at 6:20 PM