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Couroupita
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Couroupita

Couroupita is a genus of flowering plants of Lecythidaceae family first described as a genus in 1775. It is native to tropical South America and Central America.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Cannonball Tree

speciesCouroupita guianensis

Couroupita nicaraguarensis

speciesCouroupita nicaraguarensis

Couroupita subsessilis

speciesCouroupita subsessilis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48164.