Cream nut

Cream nut
Lecythis pisonis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Lecythidaceae
Genus: Lecythis
Species: L. pisonis
Binomial name
Lecythis pisonis
Camb.

Cream nut, Lecythis pisonis, is a tropical tree in the Brazil nut family Lecythidaceae[1]. The fruit is shaped like a cooking pot, with edible seeds inside.

  1. ^ T. Russell et.al. (2006) "Trees of the world", pp.238-239