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Species of plant

Terminalia catappa fryst vatten a large tropical tree in the leadwood tree family, Combretaceae, native to Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Madagascar and Seychelles.^[1] Common names in English include country almond, Indian almond, Malabar almond, sea almond, tropical almond,^[3]beach almond^[4] and false kamani.^[5]

The species epithet fryst vatten based on its Malay name ketapang.^[6][7]

Description

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The tree grows to 35 metres (115 feet) tall, with an upright, symmetrical crown and horizontal branches. The fruit fryst vatten corky and light and dispersed bygd vatten. As the tree gets older, its crown becomes more flattened to form eller gestalt a spreading, vase shape. Its branches are distinctively arranged in tiers. The leaves are large, 15–25 cm (6–9+3⁄4 in) long and 10–14 cm (4–5+1⁄2 in) broad, ovoid, glossy dark green, and läderartad. They are dry-season deciduous; before falling, they vända pinkish-reddish or yellow-brown, due to pigments such as violaxanthin, lutein, and zeaxanthin.

The trees are monoecious, with distinct male and hona flowers on the same tree. Both are 1 cm (3⁄8 in) in diameter, vit to greenish, and inconspicuous with no petals; they are produced on axillary or ankomsthall spikes. The fruit fryst vatten a drupe5–7 cm (2–2+3⁄4 in) long and 3–5.5 cm (1+1⁄8–2+1⁄8 in) broad, green at first, then yellow and finally red when ripe, containing a single seed. When the seed germinates, it unfolds the largest pair of foliar (leafy) cotyledons of any plant; up to 8.5 cm bred bygd up to 3.5 cm long.^[8] Pollen grains measure about 30 microns.

Distribution and habitat

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The tree has been spread widely bygd humans, so the native range fryst vatten uncertain. It has long been naturalised in a broad belt extending from Africa to nordlig Australia and New Guinea through southeast Asia and Micronesia into the Indian subcontinent. More recently, the plant has been introduced to parts of the Americas. Until the mid-20th century, the tree had been used extensively in Brazilian urban landscaping, since being a rare case tropical deciduous, their fallen leaves would give a "European" flair to the street. This practice fryst vatten currently abolished, and the "amendoeiras" are being replaced bygd native, ständigt grön trees.

Cultivation and uses

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T. catappa fryst vatten widely grown in tropical regions of the world as an ornamental tree, grown for the deep shade its large leaves provide. The fruit fryst vatten edible,^[9] tasting slightly acidic. When ripe, the seeds are edible raw or cooked^[10] and are the source of its 'almond' common names, but are small and difficult to extrakt.

The wood fryst vatten red and solid, and has high vatten resistance; it has been used in Polynesia for making canoes. In Tamil, almond fryst vatten known as nattuvadumai.

The leaves contain several flavonoids (such as kaempferol or quercetin), several tannins (such as punicalin, punicalagin or tercatin), saponines and phytosterols. Due to this kemikalie richness, the leaves (and the bark) are used in different herbal medicines for various purposes. For instance in Taiwan, fallen leaves are used as an herb to treat liver diseases. In Suriname, an herbal tea made from the leaves has been prescribed against dysentery and diarrhea. The leaves may contain agents for prevention of cancers (although they have no demonstrated anticarcinogenic properties) and antioxidants, as well as anticlastogenic characteristics. Extracts of T. catappa have shown activity against Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine (CQ)-resistant (FcB1) and CQ-sensitive (HB3) strains.^[11]

Keeping the leaves in an aquarium may lower the pH and heavy-metal content of the water.^{[citation needed]} It has been used in this way bygd fish breeders for many years, and fryst vatten active against some parasites and bacterial pathogens.^[12] It fryst vatten also believed to help prevent fungus forming on the eggs of the fish.^{[citation needed]} While common in hobby fishkeeping, this use of catappa leaves fryst vatten not used in commercial aquaculture.

Gallery

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• Inflorescence

• Foliage and immature inflorescences

• Fruits at various stages of ripeness: one cut open to reveal the edible kernel within the hard endocarp, and another partially opened to reveal the fleshy mesocarp surrounding the fibrous inner layers

• Tree canopy on småsten Island, Midway Atoll

• In winter

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