Brazil-nut

Given the scale of the diaspora of plant species, it's surprising that the ultimate plant pest—some scrambling, fast-growing, leaf-smothering, all-year-round, all-habitat, all-weather devil's snare—hasn't emerged in reality and begun overwhelming every kind of vegetation from Amazonian Brazil-nut groves to Hebridean potato plots.

Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds Richard Mabey 2011

How old are large Brazil-nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) in the Amazon?

Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World 2007

Thick as a truck at its base, the Brazil-nut tree rises 10 stories to an opulent crown, lord of the Amazon jungle.

A Plot Of Their Own 2007

Two of the largest and heaviest fruits known, however, the Brazil-nut fruit (Bertholletia) and Durian, grow on lofty forest trees, from which they fall as soon as they are ripe, and often wound or kill the native inhabitants.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

At times we saw lofty Brazil-nut trees rising above the rest of the forest on the banks; and back from the river these trees grow to enormous proportions, towering like giants.

VIII. The River of Doubt 1914

This year the Brazil-nut crop on the river had failed, a serious thing for all explorers and wilderness wanderers.

X. To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition 1914

'It really does taste rather like one kind of Brazil-nut.'

The Story of the Treasure Seekers 1891

At times we saw lofty Brazil-nut trees rising above the rest of the forest on the banks; and back from the river these trees grow to enormous proportions, towering like giants.

Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

This year the Brazil-nut crop on the river had failed, a serious thing for all explorers and wilderness wanderers.

Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Two of the largest and heaviest fruits known, however, the Brazil-nut fruit (Bertholletia) and Durian, grow on lofty forest trees, from which they fall as soon as they are ripe, and often wound or kill the native inhabitants.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868