Hura crepitans: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Genus
- Hura
- Species
- Hura crepitans
- Scientific Name
- Hura crepitans
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hura crepitans
Hura crepitans, known by the common names sandbox tree, possumwood, monkey no-climb, assacu (from Tupi asaku) and jabillo, is a species of evergreen tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical regions of North and South America including the Amazon rainforest. It is also present in parts of Tanzania, where it is considered an invasive species. Because its fruit explodes when ripe, it has also received the colloquial nickname "dynamite tree".
...Hura crepitans in languages:
- Chinese
- 沙盒樹
- Czech
- hura chřestivá
- English
- Sandbox Tree
- English
- Dynamite Tree
- English
- monkey-no-climb
- French
- sablier
- Indonesian
- Roda
- Japanese
- サルノトウナス
- Portuguese
- Acaçu
- Portuguese
- Açacu
- Portuguese
- Assacu
- Portuguese
- Assacuzeiro
- Portuguese
- Ussacu
- Russian
- Хура трескающаяся
- Thai
- โพศรี
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