Fabaceae FAMILY

Hymenaea martiana

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Hymenaea martiana is an evergreen tree with a dense, wide-spreading crown, growing 4 - 25 metres tall. The short bole can be 40 - 90cm in diameter[ 625 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2009 ISBN 85-86714-34-4 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of materials. The wood is of good quality and is harvested on a commercial basis and traded. An excellent shade tree, it is often left in pasture land when the forest is cleared.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Paraguay, central, eastern and northern Brazil, Bolivia.

HabitatSavannah, Atlantic rainforest and forests in semi-arid areas; usually in the more open and secondary growth areas; favouring moister clay soils on the floodplains[ 625 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2009 ISBN 85-86714-34-4 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ].