Bertholletia excelsa belongs to the Brazil nut family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)] Reference

Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) - Encyclopedia of Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)] Reference

How old are large Brazil-nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) in the Amazon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World] Reference

It was subsequently published as Bertholletia excelsa by Bonpland in 1808.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)] Reference

Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) and mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) are also found here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tapajós-Xingu moist forests] Reference

The Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) is present in the south, but is likely not native this far west in Amazonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southwest Amazon moist forests] Reference

The Jurua River Basin seems to be the western limit to the natural occurrence of Bertholletia excelsa, the Brazil nut tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juruá-Purus moist forests] Reference

At maturity the large, round, woody fruits of Bertholletia excelsa fall to the ground with from 10 to 25 seeds trapped inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)] Reference

Economically important trees on the terra-firme are the Brazil nut Bertholletia excelsa, Bowdichia virgilioides, and rubber Hevea spruceana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil] Reference

Two interesting elements appear in these forests: liana forests and babaçu palm (Attalea speciosa)/Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests] Reference

Trees of the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) in the 140-150 cm diameter size class have been estimated by radiocarbon dating to be only 270 years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World] Reference

Other large trees, some with commercial value, on the terra firme are the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa), sucupira (Bowdichia virgilioides), and rubber (Hevea spruceana).    From Wordnik.com.  [Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests] Reference

Even the characteristically giant (up to 1,400 mm in diameter) Brazil nut tree Bertholletia excelsa and legume Dinizia excelsa are abundant here, but are not as large as normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests] Reference

Brazil nuts are gathered only from Bertholletia excelsa, a species of non-flooded forest native to Guyana, Surinam, and Amazonian Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World] Reference

Prominent tree species include Lecythis odora, Lecythis turbinata, brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa, rare in this area), Cenostigma tocantina, Bombax tocantinum, and the large liana Bauhinia bombaciflora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests] Reference

The second type of special forest comprises stands of Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) and babaçu palm (Attalea speciosa) which occur together or alternately dominating different locales in the eastern portion of this region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests] Reference

The cipo passed from one tree to another without breaking its continuity, sometimes twisting round the trunks, sometimes garlanding the branches, here jumping form a dragon-tree to a rosewood, then from a gigantic chestnut, the “Bertholletia excelsa,” to some of the wine palms, “baccabas,” whose branches have been appropriately compared by Agassiz to long sticks of coral flecked with green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

Brazil-nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa): nut, harvest of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

We have made it known by the name of Bertholletia excelsa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Esmeralda (Bertholletia excelsa), and the Geoffroea of the Amazon, yields the finest almonds of all South America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

We went on shore, and M. Bonpland discovered within a few steps of the beach a majestic almendron, or Bertholletia excelsa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Two lofty trees, closely allied to each other -- the Lecythis ollaria and the Bertholletia excelsa -- produce enormous capsules full of nuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Lecythidaceae - Part II: the zygomorphic-flowered New World Genera (Couroupita, Corythophora, Bertholletia, Couratari, Eschweilera, & Lecythis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World] Reference

Two of the largest and heaviest fruits known, however, the Brazil-nut fruit (Bertholletia) and Durian, grow on lofty forest trees, from which they fall as soon as they are ripe, and often wound or kill the native inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

Caryocar nuciferum which is cultivated in Dutch and French Guiana, and which, with the almendron of Mariquita (Caryocar amygdaliferum), the juvia of the Esmeralda (Bertholletia excelsa), and the Geoffroea of the Amazon, yields the finest almonds of all South America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

Taxonomy, ecology, and economic botany of the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa Humb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)] Reference

Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa).    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)] Reference

Bertholletia excelsa, or Brazil nut tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

"Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa).".    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)] Reference

Peru, our Bertholletia excelsa, or juvia, (fructus amygdalae-nucleo, triangularis, dorso lato, in bina latera angulosa desinente, rugosus, paululum cuneiformis) from the pekea, or Amygdala guayanica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference