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Hymenaea courbaril
Also called West Indian Locust, Brazilian Copal, Locust, South American Locust, Stinking Toe Tree, Amami Gum, Brazilian Cherry
1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in Singapore Botanic Gardens, Corner House Lawn
Stinkingtoe is a large tropical hardwood tree native from Mexico through Central and South America and the Caribbean, grown for timber, resin and shade. It needs warmth, full light and a moist tropical climate.
Hymenaea courbaril, the courbaril or West Indian locust, is a hardwood tree common in the Caribbean and Central and South America. As lumber it is frequently used to make furniture, flooring, and decoration. Its hard fruit pods have an edible dry pulp surrounding the seeds. Its sap, called animé, is used for incense, perfume, and varnish.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hymenaea courbaril 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.
