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Dipteryx oleifera (Tonka Bean; Almendro; Eboe)

Synonyms: Coumarouna oleifera (homotypic); Coumarouna panamensis; Cumaruna oleifera; Dipteryx panamensis; Oleiocarpon panamense

Attributes

Janka Hardness [2]  3540 lbf (1606 kgf) Very Hard
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Specific Gravity [3]  0.85
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tortuguero National Park II 47632 Costa Rica

Predators

Ara ambiguus (Great Green Macaw)[4]
Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)[5]
Nasua narica (White-nosed Coati)[6]
Sciurus granatensis (red-tailed squirrel)[7]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 3Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 4BirdLife International (2012) Species factsheet: Ara ambiguus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 06/09/2012.
♦ 5Artibeus jamaicensis, Jorge Ortega and Iván Castro-Arellano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 662, pp. 1–9 (2001)
♦ 6Nasua narica, Matthew W. Gompper, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 487, pp. 1-10 (1995)
♦ 7Sciurus granatensis, Leslie Zuhn Nitikman, Mammalian Species No. 246, pp. 1-8 (1985)
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0