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Latin name	Pithecellobium circinale (L.) Benth.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Cuba, Hispaniola)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
Foliage
Ecology	xer
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Synonym	Feuilleea circinalis (L.) Kuntze Inga circinalis (L.) Willd. Inga spinifolia Desv. Mimosa circinalis L. Pithecellobium spinifolium (Desv.) Benth.
English name	circinate blackbead; bread-and-cheese, catclaw (USA)
French name	pithécellobium circiné; campêche marron, galle-galle, mange-cabrite, mangue cabrit (Haiti)
Spanish name	cinazo, gatigal (Dominican Republic)
Other name	galgal, kampèche mawon, mange kabrit (creole, Haiti)
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Latin name	Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, USA: Texas, Florida; West Indies) N South America int MW Africa
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M[L]
Foliage	D E?
Ecology	hel mes [xer]
Use	dr (fruits pulp taken orally to stop blood flow in hemoptysis, leaves poultice for convulsions, venereal lesions and pain, leaves with salt and black pepper for indigestion, pulverized seed ingested for internal ulcers, roots bark decoction taken orally for dysentry, seed juice inhaled into nostrils for congestion) fd (fruits, pods) fr fw (fuel, firewood) ma (seed oil for soap, tan-bark) pl (firewood crop, thorny hedge) pp (good for paper pulp) sa (shade tree, wind breaker) ti (fence posts , general construction, posts)
Synonym	Acacia dulcis Roxb. Acacia obliquifolia M.Martens & Galeotti Albizzia dulcis (Roxb.) F.Muell. Feuilleea bertolonii (Benth.) Kuntze Feuilleea dulcis (Roxb.) Kuntze Inga camatchili Perr. Inga dulcis (Roxb.) Willd. Inga javana DC. Inga lanceolata Blanco Inga leucantha C.Presl Inga pungens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Mimosa dulcis Roxb. Mimosa edulis Gagnep. Mimosa monilifera Bertol. Mimosa pungens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Poir. Mimosa unguis-cati Blanco non L. Pithecellobium littorale Britton & Rose ex Record Pithecolobium bertoloni Benth. Zygia dulcis (Roxb.) Lyons
English name	guamachil blackbead; apes-earring, blackbead (USA); bread-and-cheese (Guyana); guamachil, guamachil apes-earring, guamuchil; Madras thorn (Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka); Madras-thorn; Manila tamarind (Puerto Rico); monkeypod, ramshorn (USA)
French name	pithécellobium doux; acacia à bracelets (French Antilles); campèche marron (Haiti); diabelle (French Antilles)
Spanish name	azabache, azabuche, béjuco payandé, buche, chancán, chiminango (Colombia); chucum blanco (Mexico); cuajadita (Nicaragua); dinde (Colombia); espino (El Salvador, Nicaragua); gallinero (Central America, Colombia); gina extrangera (Dominican Republic); guachimol, guagacàn blanco (El Salvador); guama americano; guamá americano (Puerto Rico); guamacho, guamo blanco (Venezuela); guamuche (Mexico); guamuchil (Puerto Rico); guamúchil, guaymochile, huamúchil, humo (Mexico); inga dulce, ingá dulce (Cuba); jaguay (Guatemala); kamachile (Philippines); madre de flecha (Guatemala); michiguïste (Nicaragua); mochigüiste (Costa Rica); mongollano (El Salvador, Honduras); múchite, nipe (Mexico); ojito de Nena, payandé, payandé clavo (Colombia); pechejumo, pinsón, pinzán, pinzón (Mexico); quamachil, quamuche; shahuay (Guatemala); tamarindo chino (Cuba); tierra espina (Ecuador); tiraco (Colombia); yacure (Venezuela)
Other name	babul (India); bebguiche (zapoteco); cuauhmochitl (nahuatl); dakhani babul (India); gaumuchil; imli (India); katugaha (Sri Lanka); kinki-ju (Okinawa); kodai kaapuli, kodukapuli (Sri Lanka); lala-nempá (cuicateco); lileka (totonaco); ma-gju (chinanteco); macachuni (guarigio); maco'ochiini (mayo); makam (Taiwan); makam tet (Thailand); manila; matúrite (huichol); mchonogoma (Tanzania); nempa (cuicateco); nocuana-guiche (zapoteco); olakhani babul (India); opiuma (Hawaii); piquiche (zapoteco); tamarind; ticuahndi (mixteco); ts'uni'che (maya); ümi (cora); umúh (huasteco); vilayati (India); yaga-biguichi, yaga-bixihui (zapoteco)
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Latin name	Pithecellobium furcatum Benth.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico, Guatemala, Belize)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Feuilleea furcata (Benth.) Kuntze
English name	furcate blackbead; red fowl (Belize)
French name	pithécellobium branchu
Spanish name	amezquite
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Latin name	Pithecellobium glanduligerum Standl. & L.O.Williams
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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Ecology
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Synonym	Pithecolobium glanduligerum Standl. & L.O.Williams
English name	glandular blackbead
French name	pithécellobium glanduleux
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Latin name	Pithecellobium histrix (A.Rich.) Benth.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bahamas)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
Foliage
Ecology	xer
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Synonym	Calliandra histrix (A.Rich.) Griseb. Calliandra hystrix A.Rich. Feuilleea histrix (A.Rich.) Kuntze Inga histrix A.Rich. Pithecellobium calliandrifolium C.Wright ex Griseb. Pithecellobium hystrix (A.Rich.) Benth.
English name	bristly blackbead; bristly cat's-claw (Bahamas)
French name	pithécellobium hérissé
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Latin name	Pithecellobium hymenaeifolium (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Benth.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Panama) N South America (Colombia, Venezuela)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	S?
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Synonym	Feuilleea hymenaeaefolia (Willd.) Kuntze Inga hymenaeaefolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Inga macrostachya (Vahl) Steud ex DC. Mimosa brachystachya DC. Mimosa hymenaeaefolia (Willd.) Poir. Mimosa macrostachys Vahl Pithecellobium hondurense Britton & Rose Pithecellobium macrosiphon Standl. Pithecolobium macrostachyum (Vahl) Benth. Pithecolobium panamense Walp. & Duchass.
English name	membranousleaf blackbead
French name	pithécellobium à feuilles membraneuses
Spanish name	maiz cocido, uña-de-loro (Venezuela)
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Latin name	Pithecellobium johansenii Standl.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Belize to Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
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Synonym	Pithecellobium telense Britton
English name	Johansen blackbead
French name	pithécellobium de Johansen
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Latin name	Pithecellobium keyense Britton ex Britton & Rose
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Mexico: Yucatán, Quintana Roo; Belize, USA: Florida; Cuba, Bahamas)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel xer
Use	dr fd fr
Synonym	Pithecellobium bahamense var. keyense (Britton) Morton ex Isely Pithecellobium guadalupense (Pers.) Chapm. Pithecellobium keyense Britton ex Coker
English name	Keys blackbead; black bead (Bahamas); blackbead; catclaw; Florida keys blackbead (USA); Guadeloupe blackbead; ram's horn (Bahamas); rams-horn
French name	pithécellobium des Keys
Spanish name	aroma (Cuba)
Other name	x-coy (maya, Belize), xa-coy
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Latin name	Pithecellobium lanceolatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Benth.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Costa Rica) NW MW South America (Colombia, Peru)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
Use	dr fd
Synonym	Inga lanceolata Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. non Blanco Inga ligustrina (Jacq.) Willd. Mimosa lanceolata (Willd.) Poir. Mimosa ligustrina Jacq. Pithecellobium albicaule Britton & Rose Pithecellobium calostachys Standl. Pithecellobium insigne Micheli ex Donn.Sm. Pithecellobium ligustrinum (Jacq.) Benth. Pithecellobium pachypus Pittier Pithecellobium spinulosum Pittier Pithecellobium velutinum Britton & Rose Pithecolobium campechense Lundell Pithecolobium insigne Micheli ex Donn.Sm. Pithecolobium ligustrinum (Jacq.) Klotzsch ex Benth. non (Vahl) Benth. Pusaetha scandens var. acutifolia Kuntze
English name	lanceolate blackbead; bastard bully tree, red fowl (Belize)
French name	pithécellobium lancéolé
Spanish name	abracade (El Salvador); ahoga-gato (Mexico); blanco, buche, buche blanco (Colombia); conchi (Mexico); laguadrí, maíz cocida (Venezuela); michiwiste (Costa Rica); ñaure (Mexico); oroce, orore (Venezuela); pinta mono, pintacanillo (Colombia); piquiqua, taquapire, timuche (Mexico); tiracó (Colombia); tucuy (Mexico); yacure (Venezuela); zizimúchil (Mexico)
Other name	chucum (maya, Belize)
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Latin name	Pithecellobium macrandrium Donn.Sm.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico, Guatemala, Belize)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	S?
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Ecology
Use	dr
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English name	bigstamen blackbead; pricklewood (Belize)
French name	pithécellobium à grandes étamines
Spanish name	motilla (Guatemala); puma (Belize)
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Latin name	Pithecellobium maestrense Urb.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Pithecolobium maestrense Urb.
English name	SierraMaestra blackbead
French name	pithécellobium de la Sierra Maestra
Spanish name	sabicú de la Maestra (Cuba)
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Latin name	Pithecellobium peckii S.F.Blake
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (end Belize)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Synonym	Pithecolobium pistaciifolium Standl.
English name	Peck blackbead; waika beans (Belize)
French name	pithécellobium de Peck
Spanish name	palo de espina (Belize)
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Latin name	Pithecellobium striolatum Urb.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (end Haiti: Tiburón, Cahouane)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
Foliage
Ecology	calc
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English name	faintlystriped blackbead
French name	pithécellobium légèrement strié
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Latin name	Pithecellobium unguis-cati (L.) Benth.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, USA: Florida; Bahamas, West Indies) N South America (Colombia, Venezuela)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
Foliage	E [D]
Ecology	hyg xer? calc?
Use	dr (bark decoction taken orally for fever, dysentery, renal infection, kidney stones and liver-spleen infection, bark and fruits pericarp bath for skin infections) dr(ob) fd (fruits) fw ma pl (hedge) ti (posts)
Synonym	Feuilleea oblonga (Benth.) Kuntze Feuilleea unguis-cati (L.) Kuntze Feuilleea unguis-cati var. latifolia Kuntze Inga guadalupensis (Pers.) Desv. Inga microphylla Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Inga unguis-cati (L.) DC. Inga unguis-cati (L.) Willd Mimosa guadalupensis Pers. Mimosa unguis-cati L. Pithecellobium larensis L.Cárdenas Pithecellobium oblongum Benth. Pithecellobium paniculatum Pittier Pithecellobium pittieri Britton & Killip non Benth. Pithecellobium pulchellum Pittier Pithecellobium saxosum Standl. & Steyerm. Pithecellobium unguis-cati (L.) Mart. Pithecolobium flavovirens Britton Pithecolobium microchlamys Pittier Pithecolobium microphyllum (Humb. & Bonpl.) Benth. Pithecolobium microstachyum Standl. Pithecolobium oblongum Benth. Pithecolobium saxosum Standl. & Steyerm. Pithecolobium seleri Harms Pithecolobium unguis-cati (L.) Benth Zygia unguis-cati (L.) Sudw.
English name	catclaw blackbead; beefsteak (Grenadines); black bead, black bread; black Jessie (Trinidad); blackbead (Jamaica, Trinidad); blackbread (Jamaica, USA, Virgin Islands); bread and cheese (Jamaica); bread-and-cheese (Barbados, Trinidad, Virgin Islands); bread-and-cheeses (Virgin Gorda); bread-tree, break-free (Barbados); cat's-claw; catclaw (USA, Virgin Islands); catclaw apes-earring, catclaw blackbread (USA); cats claw (Bahamas); crab prickle; crab-prickle (Virgin Islands); crab-wood (Netherlands Antilles); Florida catclaw (USA, Virgin Gorda); mangrove bead tree; mangrove bread-tree (Barbados); moabite, privet
French name	pithécellobium griffe-de-chat; acacia à bracelets, acacie ongle de chat, bois-traînant, collier diable, collier-diable, coquelicot; diaballe (Martinique); griffe chat, griffe-chatte, querette, tendre à caillou rivière, tendre à caillou-rivière; vulgo collier-diable (Guadeloupe)
Spanish name	cinazo (Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico); ciñazo (Dominican Repubic); conchi (Central America, Mexico); dinde (Colombia); escambrón colorado (Puerto Rico); espino de playa; guayacán (Central America, Mexico); güichere (Venezuela); manca montero (Cuba); michiguiste negro (Costa Rica); mongollano (Central America, Mexico); mongolleno (El Salvador); peronio (Colombia); platanito (Venezuela); rolóm escambrón (Puerto Rico); rolón (Central America, Mexico, Puerto Rico); rolón escambróm (Puerto Rico); taguapire (Venezuela); uña de gato (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico); uña de gatu; uña-de-gato (Central America, Mexico)
Other name	Antillen-Kieselholz (german); beshi di juana (Netherlands Antilles); dabarouida (Curaçao); t'suiche, tzim-ché, tzin-ché (Mexico); uña di gatu (Netherlands Antilles)
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Latin name	Pittoniotis Griseb.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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English name	pittoniotis
French name	pittoniotis
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Latin name	Pittoniotis trichantha Griseb.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama) N South America (Colombia, Venezuela)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
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Synonym	Antirhea trichantha (Griseb.) Hemsl.
English name	hairyflower pittoniotis
French name	pittoniotis du Panama
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Latin name	Planera J.F.Gmel.
Family	Ulmaceae
Distribution
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English name	planertree; water-elm
French name	planera; orme des marécages
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Latin name	Planera aquatica Walter ex J.F.Gmel.
Family	Ulmaceae
Distribution	MC ME SC SE North America (USA: Missouri to North Carolina, Texas to Florida)
North America distribution zone	MC ME SC SE
Height	M
Foliage	D
Ecology	hyg
Use	fr
Synonym	Anonymos aquatica Walter Limnanthemum aquaticum (Walter ex J.F.Gmel.) Britton Nymphoides aquaticum (Walter ex J.F.Gmel.) Kuntze Planera ulmifolia Michx. Trachyspermum aquaticum (Walter ex J.F.Gmel.) House
English name	water planertree; planer tree, planertree, water elm; waterelm (USA)
French name	planera des marécages; orme des marécages
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Latin name	Platanus L.
Family	Platanaceae
Distribution
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English name	planetree; buttonwood, lacewood, plane (USA); plane tree (Canada, USA); plane-tree; sycamore (USA)
French name	platane; sycomore
Spanish name	álamo, aya (Mexico); haya, platano, platano platero
Other name	Platane (german); platano (italian)
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Latin name	Platanus lindeniana M.Martens & Galeotti
Family	Platanaceae
Distribution	SC North America (Mexico: Hidalgo to Chiapas)
North America distribution zone	SC
Height	L
Foliage	D
Ecology	hel hyg
Use	sa (shade tree) ti (construction)
Synonym	Platanus occidentalis var. lindeniana Jaennicke Platanus orientalis var. lindeniana Kuntze
English name	Jalapa planetree
French name	platane de Jalapa
Spanish name	alamo, chicol cohuite, haya (Mexico)
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Latin name	Platanus mexicana Moric.
Family	Platanaceae
Distribution	SC North America (Mexico: Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi, Chiapas; Guatemala)
North America distribution zone	SC
Height	L
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Ecology
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English name	Mexican planetree
French name	platane du Mexique
Spanish name	álamo, álamo blanco, aya
Other name	acuáhuitl (nahuatl, Mexico)
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Latin name	Platanus occidentalis L.
Family	Platanaceae
Distribution	MC ME SC North America (USA: Nebraska to Maine, Texas to Florida; Mexico: Coahuila and Tamaulipas to San Luis Potosi) int MW MC Eurasia (C and S Europa, Crimea)
North America distribution zone	MC ME SC
Height	L[G]
Foliage	D
Ecology	sci->hel hyg->mes calc neut
Use	cl dr (a tea can be made for infant rash, for cold, cough remedies, dietary, dermatological, gynecological, respiratory and gastrointestinal aids, bark ooze is used for washing of infect sore, it is emetic and purgative and is an ingredient in decoction for menstrual period, tea of the inner bark is used for measles and cough, the barktea with sweetgum, heart's-abustin-with-love, summer grape, beech, sawbrier and black gum is used for bad disease, used with Carolina hemlock and sawbrier in a decoction to aid in expelling afterbirth, for milky urine and dysentry) fw (fuel) pl (much planted in towns as withstands pollution because of rapidly flaking bark, ornamental, shade tree) pp ti (boxes, butcher's blocks, buttons, cabinet work, furniture, joinery, lumber, technical application, ties, vehicles, veneer sold as lacewood) ti(ob) (barge) tx (hairs from leaves and fruits can cause bronchical problems)
Synonym	Platanus densicoma Dode p.p. Platanus glabrata Fernald Platanus occidentalis var. glabrata (Fernald) Sarg.
English name	American planetree; American sycamore; butterwood, button-ball, button-wood, buttonball (USA); buttonball-tree, buttonwood, eastern sycomore, ghost tree; lacewood, plane-tree, planetree, sycamore (USA); water beech; western plane (USA)
French name	platane d'Occident; boule de boutons, platane d'Amérique, platane de Virginie, platane occidental, sycomore
Spanish name	plátano de occidente, platano de Virginia
Other name	Abendländische Platane, Amerikanische Platane, Occidentalische Platane (german); platano americano (italian)
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Latin name	Platanus racemosa Nutt.
Family	Platanaceae
Distribution	MW SW North America (USA: California; Mexico: Baja California)
North America distribution zone	MW SW
Height	L
Foliage	D
Ecology
Use	dr (native Americans used infusion prepared from the plants as a panache and from the bark for indisposition) pl
Synonym	Platanus californica Benth. Platanus racemosa Nutt. ex Audubon
English name	California planetree; California sycamore, California-button-wood, western sycamore
French name	platane de Californie
Spanish name	aliso
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Latin name	Platanus wrightii S.Watson
Family	Platanaceae
Distribution	MW MC SC North America (USA: Arizona, New Mexico; Mexico: Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa)
North America distribution zone	MW MC SC
Height	L
Foliage	D
Ecology	hyg
Use	pl
Synonym	Platanus racemosa ssp. wrightii (S.Watson) E.Murray Platanus racemosa var. wrightii (S.Watson) L.D.Benson
English name	Arizona planetree; Arizona sycamore
French name	platane de Wright
Spanish name	alamo
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Latin name	Platymiscium Vogel
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution
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English name	macawood
French name	platymiscium
Spanish name	bálsamo
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Latin name	Platymiscium curuense N.Zamora & Klitgaard
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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Ecology
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English name	Curú macawood
French name	platimiscium de Curú
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Latin name	Platymiscium dariense Dwyer
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	Darien macawood
French name	platimiscium de Darien
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Latin name	Platymiscium dimorphandrum Donn.Sm.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Costa Rica)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage	E [D]
Ecology	ma ti (cabinet work, decorative veneer, furniture, musical instruments, pipe making, special accessories, turnery)
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English name	twoshapestamen macawood
French name	platymiscium à étamines dimorphes
Spanish name	cachimbo (Honduras); chaperno, cortes, coyote (Nicaragua); hormiga, hormigo, macawood, marimba, palo marimba, palo marimbo (Honduras); pipa (Nicaragua); toncontin, trebol (Honduras); zinicche (Guatemala)
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Latin name	Platymiscium hebestachyum Benth.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Central America) N South America
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Ecology
Use	fr pl sa ti
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English name	pubescent macawood
French name	platymiscium pubescent
Spanish name	bao (Colombia); guayacán trébol, marcay
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Latin name	Platymiscium lasiocarpum Sandwith
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC North America (Mexico: Jalisco)
North America distribution zone	SC
Height	S
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English name	woollyfruit macawood
French name	platymiscium à fruits laineux
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