Jatoba is a tree that grows in the West Indies , Central and South America , in particular in Brazil . Although often called Jatoba Brazilian or South American Cherry, she is related to plants of the genus Cherry and belongs to the genus Hymenaea family Legumes
Jatoba Care
Hymenaea Courbaril



What is the plant
A tree up to 40 m high with a wide crown. Young shoots are covered with brown hairs. Leaves are compound, consist of two broad-toothed pointed leaves up to 7.5 cm long. The leaf blades are coarse-skinned, shiny on top, matte on the underside. Flowers with five gray-green sepals and five white petals are collected in panicles up to 15 cm long. Fruits - beans up to 15 cm long with a woody dark brown shell when ripe. They contain one to six round or elliptical seeds with a coarse reddish-brown shell and white grain, surrounded by a powdery yellowish-greenish pulp .
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