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Latin name	Casearia obovata Schtdl.
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico, Honduras) MW South America (Peru)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Casearia sericea L.O. Williams & Molina Casearia dentata DC.? Samyda enneandria Sessé & Moç. Samyda spinosa Sessé & Moç. Samyda tomentosa Sessé & Moç.
English name	obovate casearia
French name	casearia obové
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Latin name	Casearia praecox Griseb.
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba) N South America (Colombia, Venezuela)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Ecology
Use	ti (box, wood carving, keyboard, veneer, etc.)
Synonym	Ampelocera crenulata Urb. Casearia eriophora C.Wright ex Griseb. Gossypiospermum eriophorum (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Urb. Gossypiospermum praecox (Griseb.) P.Wilson Guidonia eriophora (C.Wright ex Griseb.) M.Gómez Guidonia praecox (Griseb.) M.Gómez Guidonia rosauriana M.Gómez
English name	boxwood casearia; Colombian boxwood, Maracaibo boxwood, San Domingo boxwood, Venezuelan boxwoood, West Indian boxwood (UK)
French name	casearia précoce
Spanish name	zapatero (Colombia, Venezuela); agracejo, agüedita, jía (Cuba); palo blanco (Dominican Republic)
Other name	castelo, pan branco, zapateiro (Brazil)
Trade name	Maracaibo boxwood, West Indian boxwood

Latin name	Casearia sericea L.O.Williams & A.Molina
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Honduras)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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English name	silky casearia
French name	casearia soyeux
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Latin name	Casearia spinescens (Sw.) Griseb.
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bahamas, West Indies) N South America (Colombia to Guianas, Trinidad and Tobago)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage
Ecology	xer
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Synonym	Casearia aculeata auct. non Jacq. Casearia brevipes Benth. Casearia cubensis Urb. Casearia guidonia Benth. Casearia spinescens (Sw.) Benth. Guidonia spinescens (Sw.) Griseb. Laetia apetala auct. non Jacq. Samyda spinescens Sw.
English name	spinescent casearia
French name	casearia épineux
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Latin name	Casearia standleyana Sleumer
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Costa Rica?)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S[M]
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Ecology	hyg
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English name	Standley casearia
French name	casearia de Standley
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Latin name	Casearia sylvestris Sw.
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	North America (tropics) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SW SC SE
Height	M
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel mes xer calc
Use	dr (oil from seed) fr (fruits) fw pl (afforestation, ornamental tree) pp (good for pulp and paper) ti (farm buildings, fence posts, furniture, general construction, paneling, etc.)
Synonym	Anavinga samyda C.F.Gaertn. Casearia affinis Gardner Casearia attenuata Rusby Casearia benthamiana Miq. Casearia cambessedesii auct. non Eichler Casearia caudata Uittien Casearia celtidifolia auct. non Kunth Casearia chlorophoroidea Rusby Casearia ekmanii Sleumer Casearia formosa Urb. Casearia herbert-smithii Rusby Casearia lindeniana Urb. Casearia oblongifolia auct. non Cambess. Casearia onacaensis Rusby Casearia parviflora J.F.Gmel. Casearia parviflora Willd. Casearia parviflora var. microphylla Schltdl. Casearia punctata Spreng. Casearia samyda (C.F.Gaertn.) DC. Casearia schulziana O.C.Schmidt Casearia serrulata Sw. Casearia subsessiliflora Lundell Casearia sylvestris var. angustifolia Uittien Casearia sylvestris var. benthamiana (Miq.) Uittien Casearia sylvestris var. chlorophoroidea (Rusby) Sleumer Casearia sylvestris var. eichleri Briq. Casearia sylvestris var. lingua auct. Casearia sylvestris var. martinicensis J.F.Macbr. ex L.O.Williams Casearia sylvestris var. myricoides Griseb. Casearia sylvestris var. paraensis Uittien Casearia sylvestris var. platyphylla DC. Casearia sylvestris var. tomentella Rusby Casearia sylvestris var. wydleri Briq. Guidonia sylvestris (Sw.) M.Gómez Samyda parviflora (Willd.) Poir. Samyda parviflora L. non Loefl. ex L. Samyda sylvestris (Sw.) Poir.
English name	wildsage casearia; crack-open (Saba); wild-coffee (Trinidad); wild-sage (Belize)
French name	casearia papelite; coca ravet (Guadeloupe); papelite (Haiti)
Spanish name	ancoche (Bolivia); avati-timbati (Argentina); barredera (El Salvador); café silvestre (Puerto Rico); cafecillo cimarrón (Paraguay); cafeillo (Puerto Rico); cafetillo (Dominican Republic); cambagui (Argentina); casearea (Ecuador); castor palo carré (Dominican Republic); cerana (Bolivia); chicharrón (Paraguay); cimarrón (Puerto Rico); comida de culebra (Nicaragua); coralillo (Guatemala); corta lengua, cortalingua (Panama); cusé (Bolivia); dondequiera (Colombia); guayabillo (Mexico); guayabito (Paraguay, Venezuela); guazatumba (Argentina); guembero, hierba de burro (Paraguay); huesillo (Costa Rica); huesito (Paraguay); jía colorada, juba rompehueso (Cuba); machacama (Paraguay); mahajo (Colombia); pabito (Venezuela); palo blanco (Puerto Rico); palo de burro (Paraguay); palo de cotona (Mexico); palo de cotorra (Dominican Republic); palo rajador (Argentina, Paraguay); papelite (Dominican Republic); pisang (Ecuador); punteral (Venezuela); quiura (Costa Rica); sacmuba, sacmuda (Guatemala); sarna de perro (Paraguay); sarnilla (Cuba); sarnilla cimarona; sombra de armado (Costa Rica, Honduras); sombra de conejo (Honduras); tacasito, tortolito (Venezuela)
Other name	avati timbavi, burro ka'á (Paraguay); cafezeiro-do-mato (portuguese, Brazil); cafezinho-do-mato, cambroé (Brazil); chá-de-bugre, corvalhinho, erva-da-pontada (portuguese, Brazil); guaçatonga (Brazil); guaçatunga (portuguese, Brazil); guaçatunga-preta, guassatunga (Brazil); makapiritu (Paraguay); papelit (creole, Haiti) pau-de-lagarto (Brazil); tai kary (Paraguay); varre-forno (Brazil)
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Latin name	Casearia sylvestris Sw. var. sylvestris
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	S North America (tropics) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SW SC SE
Height	M
Foliage	E
Ecology
Use	dr fw ti tx
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English name	typical wildsage casearia
French name	casearia papelite typique; papelite
Spanish name	aguedita blanca, aguedita macho (Cuba); cafetillo, castor (Dominican Republic); juabón (Cuba); palo carré (Dominican Republic); palo catorra (Cuba); palo de cotorra (Dominican Republic); sarna de perro (Cuba, Puerto Rico); sombra de mula (El Salvador)
Other name	mulb, mul-b (maya, Belize)
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Latin name	Casearia tacanensis Lundell
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Panama) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
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English name	Tacaná casearia
French name	casearia du Tacaná
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Latin name	Casearia tremula (Griseb.) Griseb. ex C.Wright
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Costa Rica) N MW South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M[L]
Foliage
Ecology	hyg xer sili
Use	ti
Synonym	Casearia bonairensis Bold. Casearia spiralis J.R.Johnst. Guidonia tremula (Griseb.) M.Gómez Laetia glabra Brandegee Samyda glabrata auct. non Sw. Zuelania belizensis Lundell Zuelania tremula Griseb.
English name	trembling casearia
French name	casearia tremblant
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Latin name	Casearia williamsiana Sleumer
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Honduras, Nicaragua)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage	E[D]
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Synonym	Synandrina riparia Standl. & L.O.Williams
English name	Williams casearia
French name	casearia de Williams
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Latin name	Casimiroa La Llave & Lex.
Family	Rutaceae
Distribution
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English name	sapote
French name	sapotier
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Other name	Sapote (german); sapote (italian)
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Latin name	Casimiroa edulis La Llave & Lex.
Family	Rutaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, Cuba, Hispaniola)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M[L]
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Use	dr (leaves, fruits and seeds are used as diurectic, sudorific and sedative) fd (fruits) pl
Synonym	Fagara bombacifolia (A.Rich.) Krug & Urb. Xanthoxylum bombacifolium A.Rich. Zanthoxylum bombacifolium A.Rich.
English name	white sapote; Mexican apple, whitesapote
French name	sapotier blanc; sapotier, sapotillier blanc, zapote
Spanish name	manzana de Mexico, manzano de Mexico (Venezuela); matasano (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Venezuela); pera, pera criolla, pera mexicana (Dominican Republic); sapote blanco, sapote blanco de México, zapote blanco (Cuba)
Other name	Sapote, Weisser Zapotebaum (german)
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Latin name	Casimiroa sapota Oerst.
Family	Rutaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Nicaragua)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
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English name	true sapote
French name	sapotier véritable
Spanish name	matasana, matasano (Nicaragua)
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Latin name	Casimiroa tetrameria Millsp.
Family	Rutaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Costa Rica)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M?
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Ecology
Use	dr fd
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English name	wollyleaf sapote
French name	sapotier tétramère
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Latin name	Cassia L.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution
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Synonym	Chamaecrista p.p. Moench Senna p.p. Mill.
English name	cassia; candle wood, candlewood, senna p.p.
French name	cassier; casse, cassie, séné p.p.
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Other name	baton kas (creole, Haiti); cassia (italian); Cassie, Gewürzrinde (german); kas, kas panyòl (creole, Haiti)
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Latin name	Cassia grandis L.f.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Panama, West Indies) South America (general)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M[L]
Foliage	SD
Ecology	hel hyg->xer
Use	dr (purgative, ointment made from the crushed leaves mixed with lard is used for treating mange) fd (pulp surrounding the seeds) fr fw ma pl (ornamental tree) sa ti (cabinet work, carpentry, construction)
Synonym	Bactyrilobium grande Hornem. Bactyrilobium molle Schrad. Caesalpinia brasiliana Lam. Cassia brasiliana Lam. Cassia brasiliana var. tomentosa Miq. Cassia brasiliensis Buc'hoz Cassia mollis Vahl Cassia pachycarpa de Wit Cassia regia Standl. Cathartocarpus brasilianus (Lam.) Jacq. Cathartocarpus erubescens Ham. Cathartocarpus grandis (L. f.) Pers.
English name	pinkshower cassia; beef-feed, bockoot (Belize); coral shower; coral-shower (Hawaii); horse cassia (Honduras, Jamaica); pinkshower; pinkshower castia (Puerto Rico); pinkshower senna; stinking-toe (Belize, Panama)
French name	cassier à gros fruits; bâton casse, casse, casse espagnole (Haiti); cassia à gros fruits
Spanish name	caña fistula (Panama); cañafístoda, cañafístola (Colombia); cañafístola cimarrona (Cuba, Dominican Republic); cañafistolo burrero (Venezuela); cañafístula (Colombia, Guatemala, Panama); cañafístula burrero (Venezuela); cañafístula cimarrona (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico); cañafístula grande (Mexico); cañafístula gruesa (Colombia); cañafístula macho (Venezuela); cañafístulo, cañafístulo rosado (Colombia); cañaflote (Venezuela); cañandonga (Colombia, Cuba); cañandonga de masa (Cuba); carago (Costa Rica, El Salvador); caragua (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua); carámano (Nicaragua); caramáno (Costa Rica); carambano (Nicaragua); carao (Central America); carol (Nicaragua); chácara, chacaray (Dominican Republic); cítricos (Colombia); gigantón (Puerto Rico); guayaba cimarrona; guayabos, mamoncillos, mango (Colombia); mare mare, mari-mare, mari-mari (Venezuela); quauhuayo (Mexico); sandal, sándalo, saragundin (Costa Rica)
Other name	bocot (Guatemala); bookut, bu-kèt, bu-kút, bu-kut; bucut (Guatemala); cañafistola (Brazil); cassia a grandi fruti (italian); cãssia-grande canafistula (Brazil); Grossfrüchtige Cassie (german); jeneuna, mari-mary preto, marimary rana, marimary saro (Brazil); mucut (Guatemala)
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Latin name	Cassia hintonii Sandwith
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC North America (SW Mexico)
North America distribution zone	SC
Height	S[M]
Foliage	D
Ecology	xer
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English name	Hinton cassia
French name	cassier de Hinton
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Latin name	Cassia moschata Kunth
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Panama) N South America (Colombia to Guianas, Brazil: Roraima)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M[L]
Foliage	SD
Ecology
Use	pl (ornamental, shade) sa (shade)
Synonym	Cathartocarpus moschatus (Kunth) G.Don
English name	musky cassia; female cañafistula, stinking toe (Belize)
French name	cassier musqué
Spanish name	cañafistola, cañafistolo llanero (Venezuela)
Other name	bocut (maya, Belize)
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Latin name	Cassine L.
Family	Celastraceae
Distribution
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Synonym	Elaeodendron J.Jacq p.p. Elaeodendrum Murray
English name	cassine
French name	cassine
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Latin name	Cassine cubensis (Bisse) Borhidi
Family	Celastraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Ecology	calc
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Synonym	Elaeodendron cubensis Bisse
English name	Cuban cassine
French name	cassine de Cuba
Spanish name	mate prieto, pinipiní (Cuba)
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Latin name	Cassine ehrenbergii (Urb.) Alain
Family	Celastraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Hispaniola)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	tree?
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Synonym	Elaeodendron ehrenbergii Urb.
English name	Ehrenberg cassine
French name	cassine d'Ehrenberg
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Latin name	Cassine lanceolata (Urb. & Ekman) Alain
Family	Celastraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Hispaniola)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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Synonym	Elaeodendron lanceolatum Urb. & Ekman
English name	lanceolate cassine
French name	cassine lancéolée
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Latin name	Cassine lippoldii (Bisse) Borhidi
Family	Celastraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Elaeodendron lippoldii Bisse
English name	Lippold cassine
French name	cassine de Lippold
Spanish name	almendrillo (Cuba)
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Latin name	Cassine trinitensis (Bisse) Borhidi
Family	Celastraceae
Distribution	SE North America (Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Elaeodendron trinitensis Bisse
English name	Trinidad cassine
French name	cassine de la Trinité
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Latin name	Cassipourea Aubl.
Family	Rhizophoraceae
Distribution
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English name	cassipourea
French name	cassipourea
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Latin name	Cassipourea brittoniana Fawc. & Rendle
Family	Rhizophoraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Jamaica: Trelawny)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Ecology	calc
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English name	Britton cassipourea; coco plum of Troy (Jamaica)
French name	cassipourea de Britton
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Latin name	Cassipourea guianensis Aubl.
Family	Rhizophoraceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Panama, West Indies) N MW South America (Colombia to Guianas, Ecuador: Coast, Andes; Peru)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage	E
Ecology	sci hyg->mes calc
Use	dr (bark as astringent) fr ma ti (dock piling, house framing, railroad ties)
Synonym	Cassipourea alba Griseb. Cassipourea belizensis Lundell Cassipourea cubensis Urb. Cassipourea elliptica (Sw.) Poir. Cassipourea elliptica var. alba Griseb. Cassipourea elliptica var. pauciserrata Griseb. Cassipourea macrodonta Standl. Cassipourea macrophylla DC. Cassipourea podantha Standl. Legnotis elliptica Sw.
English name	Guianas cassipourea; bastard waterwood, broken ridge water-wood (Belize); goat wood (Panama); goatwood (Belize, Panama); high ridge waterwood (Belize); mountain coffee, mountain mangrove; mountain waterwood, small leaf waterwood, waterwood (Belize)
French name	cassipourea des Guyanes; bois agouti (Lesser Antilles); bois d'ail (Guadeloupe); bois de l'ail (Guadeloupe, Martinique); bois écul, gouti (Lesser Antilles); goyavier (Dominican Republic)
Spanish name	cuco (Cuba); huesito, limoncillo (Panama); mamoncillo, mamoncillo blanco (Venezuela); mangle de montaña (Honduras); marta, murta, palo de gongoli (Puerto Rico); palo de gongoti; palo de orega, palo de orejas, palo de toro (Puerto Rico); palo Robinson (Dominican Republic)
Other name	bois die, bois l'ill (Dominica)
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Latin name	Cassipourea obtusa Urb.
Family	Rhizophoraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Haiti: Montagnes Terreneuve, Bayeux, Jérémie, Pestel, Miragoâne, Bassin Bleu, Port Margot, Port-de-Paix and Dominican Republic: Barahona, Sosúa, Cabo Samaná)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	obtuse cassipourea
French name	cassipourea obtu
Spanish name	palo Robinson, parrilla (Dominican Republic)
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Latin name	Cassipourea subsessilis Britton
Family	Rhizophoraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Jamaica: Hanover)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage
Ecology	calc
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English name	subsessile cassipourea
French name	cassipourea subsessile
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Latin name	Castanea Mill.
Family	Fagaceae
Distribution
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English name	chesnut; chinkapin, sweet chesnut
French name	châtaignier
Spanish name	castaño
Other name	castanheiro; Kastanie, Kastanienbaum (german); castagno (italian)
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