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Description

• he 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.
• 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.1 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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• In Brazil, it is illegal to cut down a Brazil nut
  tree. As a result, they can be found outside
  production areas, in the backyards of homes and
  near roads and streets. The fruit containing nuts
  are very heavy and rigid, and they pose a serious
  threat to vehicles and people passing under the
  tree. Brazil nuts sink in fresh water, which can
  cause clogging of waterways in riparian areas.
• Brazil nut trees produce fruit almost exclusively
  in pristine forests, as disturbed forests lack
  the large-bodied bees of the genera Bombus,
  Centris, Epicharis, Eulaema, and Xylocopa which
  are the only ones capable of pollinating the
  tree's flowers, with different bee genera being
  the primary pollinators in different areas, and
  different times of year.234 Brazil nuts
  have been harvested from plantations, but
  production is low and is currently not
  economically viable.

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• Despite their name, the most significant exporter
  of Brazil nuts is not Brazil but Bolivia, where
  they are called castañas o nuez de Brasil. In
  Brazil, these nuts are called castanhas-do-pará
  (literally "chestnuts from Pará"), but Acreans
  call them castanhas-do-acre instead. Indigenous
  names include juvia in the Orinoco area. In Cuba,
  the nut is alternatively called coquito de
  Santiago, literally St. James coconut.
• Though it is commonly called the Brazil nut, in
  botanical terms it is the seed from the fruit of
  this tree. To a botanist, a nut is a hard-shelled
  indehiscent fruit. (An example of a botanical nut
  would be an acorn or a hazelnut.)
• In North America, Brazil nuts are sometimes known
  by the epithet "nigger toes,"8 though the term
  has fallen out of favor as public use of the
  racial slur became increasingly unacceptable by
  the 1960s. They can be seen being sold in a
  market under this name in a scene from the 1922
  Stan Laurel film The Pest

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