Brosimum

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Brosimum is a genus of plants in the family Moraceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.

The Breadnut (B. alicastrum) was used by the Maya civilization for its edible nut. The dense vividly colored scarlet wood of Satine Bloodwood (B. paraense) is used for decorative woodworking. Plants of this genus are otherwise used for timber, building materials, and in a cultural context.

Read about Brosimum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Brosimum (Greek, edible). Moraceae. A genus of 8 species of large trees of Trop. Amer., yielding edible fr. : fls. monoecious, or rarely dioecious, inside or on the outside of a fig-like receptacle. B. Alicastrum, Swartz, is the bread-nut of Jamaica, but it is not grown within the U. S., except in most of the botanic gardens. It bears round yellow fr., about an inch in diam., containing a single large seed, which is edible after roasting. The tree has shining lance-elliptic entire Lvs. Prop, by cuttings of young wood in a bell-jar with bottom heat. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Species

Selected species:

• Brosimum acutifolium
• Brosimum alicastrum – Breadnut, Maya Nut, ramón (Spanish)
• Brosimum costaricanum
• Brosimum discolor
• Brosimum gaudichaudii Trecul – Mama-cadela
• Brosimum glaucum Taub.
• Brosimum glaziovii Taub.
• Brosimum guianense (Aubl.) Huber – "snakewood" (= B. aubletii)
• Brosimum ovatifolium
• Brosimum paraense – Satine Bloodwood
• Brosimum parinarioides Ducke
  • Brosimum parinarioides ssp. amplicoma (Ducke) C.C.Berg (= B. amplicoma)
  • Brosimum parinarioides ssp. parinarioides
• Brosimum potabile
• Brosimum rubescens Taub. (= B. paraense)
• Brosimum utile (Kunth) Pittier (= B. galactodendron)

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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