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Carol Muse Skinner | all galleries >> Digital Art of Carol Muse Skinner >> Panama Trees • Bushes • Plants > Arbol Panamá - Panama Tree
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Arbol Panamá - Panama Tree

Other Common Names: Anacag_ita (Puerto Rico), Bellota, Chiapas (Mexico), Sunsun (Venezuela), Camajuru (Colombia).
Distribution: Southern Mexico and Central America to Peru and Brazil.
Widely planted elsewhere in the tropics as a shade tree, for the edible seeds, and as a honey plant.
The tree reaches a height of 130 ft and a trunk diameter of 80 in.; develops prominent, narrow buttresses.

Photographed in the Parque Natural Metropolitano.

Information: USDA Forest Service


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Margot W16-Aug-2007 19:10
That tree can get amazingly tall.
It is lovely.
Such a different image from the firs, maples and oaks I am used to.