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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | © A Dictionary of Plant Sciences 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Bertholletia (family Lecythidaceae) A monotypic genus (B. excelsa, the Brazil-nut) of big, locally common, rainforest trees of tropical America. The fruit is a hard, spherical, woody capsule opening by a terminal plug and containing numerous very hard, woody seeds with copious, oily endosperm.

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