Terminalia catappa L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Combretaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A tree, up to 24 m. high, with a trunk diameter of 1.5 m., usually much smaller, the spreading branches whorled, the twigs stout, glabrous. Leaves clustered at the ends of the twigs, obovate or broadly oblanceolate, 1-3 dm. long, short-petioled, glabrous, rounded, or 'short-pointed at the apex, cuneate at the base, dark green and shining above, pale green beneath; spikes slender, many-flowered, 5-15 cm. long; calyx 8-10 mm. long, pubescent, its ovate lobes about as long as the tube or longer; drupe ellipsoid, compressed, glabrous, 2-edged, pointed, 4-7 cm. long; seed 3-4 cm. long.
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Distribution
In coppices, spontaneous after cultivation ; planted and sometimes spontaneous near towns on all the larger islands : spontaneous after cultivation in Florida, in many of the West Indian islands and most inhabited parts of continental tropical America. Native of the Old World tropics. Indian Almond. Almond-tree.
Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|