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Acioa longipendula is a tropical rainforest tree from the Amazon of northern Brazil, grown for its edible nuts and oil. It is a wild forest species with little horticultural history, so cultivation details are limited.
The tropical rainforest tree Acioa longipendula is known by the common names egg nut, castanha de galinha, and pendula nut. It is endemic to the Amazon Rainforest of northern Brazil.
Its nuts are used as a food source in rural South America, especially in Brazil. The nuts are useful for their oil.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acioa longipendula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
