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Cariniana legalis is a very large emergent rainforest tree of the Brazil-nut family, native to the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil. It is grown mainly as a shade or specimen tree in its native range and is threatened by habitat loss.
Cariniana legalis is a species of emergent rainforest tree in the Monkeypot family Lecythidaceae. It is found in the Atlantic forest of south-eastern Brazil, where is known as jequitibá-branco or jequitibá-rosa, and possibly found in Colombia, and Venezuela. These trees can be very large. A C. legalis measured by botanical explorer David Fairchild was 62 feet (19 meters) in circumference with no buttresses at six feet (two meters) above ground.
It is one of the biggest trees in the Atlantic Forest. There are some old trees in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, João Neiva and near Petrópolis. One of these trees is more than 3 000 years old.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cariniana legalis 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.
