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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
hakeafan.bsky.social
Planchonia careya
Lecythidaceae
(Cocky Apple)
Townsville, Queensland,
Australia
Oct 2025
#PlanchoniaCareya #Lecythidaceae #CockyApple
#ozplants #Australiannature #botany #wildoz #nature
#ozflora #botany #NativeFlora #Flora #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
hakeafan.bsky.social
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
hakeafan.bsky.social
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
hakeafan.bsky.social
Barringtonia asiatica
Lecythidaceae
20/10/2014
Daintree/Cape Tributation
Far North Queensland
#BarringtoniaAsiatica #Lecythidaceae #FishPoisonTree #Putat #SeaPoisonTree #MangroveHabitat #TropicalTrees #Botany #ozplants #ozflora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature
January 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
hakeafan.bsky.social
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
hakeafan.bsky.social
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
nikojln2016.bsky.social
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
hakeafan.bsky.social
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
inaturalist.bsky.social
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...
A large flower grows directly from the gray bark of a small tree. The flower is mostly cream colored with a ring of red. Three flowers grow directly from the gray bark of a small tree. The flowers are mostly cream colored with a ring of red.
March 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
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 🌾🧪
Photo of a wooden bowl with variously shaped seeds and fruits. Plate of two photos. The upper photo shows the ridged & lobed endocarp Barringtonia acutangula (Lecythidaceae). The lower photo shows the bumpy, grenade-like endocarp of Sacoglottis amazonica (Humiriaceae).
February 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
botensky.bsky.social
Pl@ntNet identifie (à 80.29%) Couroupita guianensis (fam Lecythidaceae) com. Arbre à boulet de canon, Calabasse Colin, Abricot-macaque

#BeSPlantnet #IndentificationDePlantes
fleur - laurence petro comme image exemple pour le résultat suivant: Pl@ntNet identifie (à 80.29%) Couroupita guianensis (fam Lecythidaceae) com. Arbre à boulet de canon, Calabasse Colin, Abricot-macaque
June 16, 2024 at 6:18 PM
florabrasil.bsky.social
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...
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August 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
marcelothomaz.bsky.social
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
scottzona.bsky.social
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
Photo of a pendulous spike of white flowers with long stamens. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
October 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
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 🌾🧪
Photo looking up into a leafy tree. Two woody fruits –looking like brown jars—hang from the branches. The lids and seeds inside have fallen away already. Photo of hand holding a woody conical structure. It is the lid that has fallen out of the fruit. The lid is about 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter.
July 7, 2024 at 1:47 PM
manuelacasasoli.bsky.social
"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/...
Image Source: https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/137/7/2055/8541414 Fig. 2.Couroupita guianensis Aubl. (Lecythidaceae). (A) Cauliflorous clusters of flowers and large, lignified fruits arising directly from the trunk. (B) Fully open flower showing the zygomorphic perianth, prominent staminal hood of sterile stamens, and central fertile androecium. Photograph credit: Dennis Tenorio.
July 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
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
florabrasil.bsky.social
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
chrisdick.bsky.social
Great new paper on the biogeography of the Brazil nut family #Lecythidaceae led by #UMichEEB PhD student Diana Medellín-Zabala. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Assembling the Neotropical Tree Flora: Andean Uplift and the Historical Biogeography of the Brazil Nut Family (Lecythidaceae)
Aim The assembly of tropical tree floras is complex, involving many lineage-specific histories; however, focusing on the biogeographic history of diverse clades can reveal general patterns. We inves...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 15, 2026 at 2:08 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
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 🌾🧪
Close-up of a cluster of cauliflorous, pink flowers borne among the foliage.
July 2, 2024 at 11:05 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
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 🌾🧪
Close-up photo of a few flowers with short, white petals and many long, slender, white stamens.
May 22, 2024 at 11:03 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
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 🌾🧪
Photo of a tall tree. Below the leafy crown are pendulous, leafless, flower-bearing branches.
July 3, 2024 at 11:07 AM
forestplots.bsky.social
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
scottzona.bsky.social
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 🌾🧪
Photo of a hand holding a black, 4-angled, turbinate fruit about 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter. A sandy beach is in the background.
July 3, 2024 at 6:20 PM