Type of Flower
Cannonball:
Cannonball "Couroupita guianensis", known past times several mutual names, including cannonball tree, is a deciduous tree inwards the identify unit of measurement Lecythidaceae, which likewise contains the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa). It is native to the rainforests of Central in addition to South America.It is cultivated inwards many other places.
Couroupita guianensis grows upward to 35 one thousand (meters) inwards height. The clustered leaves vary inwards length, to a greater extent than ofttimes than non from 8 to 31 centimeters, but reaching upward to 57.The flowers are born inwards large bunches upward to lxxx m(meters) long. Some trees blossom profusely, until the entire torso is buried inwards flowers. One tree tin forcefulness out acquit yard flowers per day. They are strongly scented, specially at night,and inwards the early on morning.They are large, upward to 6 centimeters wide, in addition to ofttimes brightly colored, the vi petals inwards shades of pinkish in addition to ruddy nigh the bases in addition to yellowish toward the tips. There is a telephone of stamens at the center, in addition to an organisation to stamens that get got been modified into a hood.The large fruit, which is woody in addition to really spherical, criterion upward to 25 centimeters wide, gives the species the mutual mention "cannonball tree". H5N1 smaller fruit contains maybe 65 seeds, land a large i tin forcefulness out get got 550.One tree tin forcefulness out acquit 150 fruits. The fruit takes upward to a twelvemonth to mature inwards nigh areas, sometimes every bit long every bit eighteen months.
The tree was named Couroupita guianensis past times the French botanist Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet inwards 1755. Common names inwards other languages include many translations of the English linguistic communication cannonball tree. Common names include macacarecuia (Portuguese), coco sachapura (Colombia, Panama), bala de canon (Costa Rica), kanonskogelboom (Dutch), arbre à boulet de canon (French), kouroupitoumou (French Guiana), nagkeshar (Bengali), Nagalingam or Lingam (Tamil), sala (Indonesia), granadillo de las huacas (Panama), ayahuma (Peru), in addition to boskalebas (Suriname).
