where can i buy brazil nuts

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Where Can I Buy Brazil Nuts
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Introduction

• The Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a South
  American tree in the family Lecythidaceae, and
  also the name of the tree's commercially
  harvested edible seeds.
• The Brazil nut tree is the only species in the
  monotypic genus Bertholletia.
• It is native to the Guianas, Venezuela, Brazil,
  eastern Colombia, eastern Peru, and eastern
  Bolivia.
• It occurs as scattered trees in large forests on
  the banks of the Amazon River, Rio Negro,
  Tapajós, and the Orinoco.
• The genus is named after the French chemist
  Claude Louis Berthollet.

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• The Brazil nut is a large tree, reaching 50 m
  (160 ft) tall and with a trunk 1 to 2 m (3.3 to
  6.6 ft) in diameter, making it among the largest
  of trees in the Amazon rainforests.
• It may live for 500 years or more, and according
  to some authorities often reaches an age of 1,000
  years.
• The stem is straight and commonly without
  branches for well over half the tree's height,
  with a large emergent crown of long branches
  above the surrounding canopy of other trees.
• The bark is grayish and smooth. The leaves are
  dry-season deciduous, alternate, simple, entire
  or crenate, oblong, 2035 cm (7.913.8 in) long
  and 1015 cm (3.95.9 in) broad.
• The flowers are small, greenish-white, in
  panicles 510 cm (2.03.9 in) long each flower
  has a two-parted, deciduous calyx, six unequal
  cream-colored petals, and numerous stamens united
  into a broad, hood-shaped mass.

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