Grias neuberthii, known as the piton tree, is a large tree native to the western Amazonian rainforest (Ecuador, Columbia and Peru). From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
Species of the Brazil nut family in the New World range from Veracruz, Mexico (Eschweilera mexicana) to Paraguay (Cariniana estrellensis); the Caribbean is home only to Grias cauliflora which occurs in Jamaica and Central America from Belize and Guatemala to northwestern Colombia; and several species of Eschweilera grow in Trinidad and Tobago, but these islands harbor a South American, not a Caribbean, flora. From Wordnik.com. [Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World] Reference
October 6, 2009: Grias neuberthii. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
The actinomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae (Asteranthos, Gustavia, Grias, Allantoma, & Cariniana). From Wordnik.com. [Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World] Reference
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