| Field notes | "Siona: ""Dédé-bui"". A solitary small tree. Trunk to 1 m high, fingerthick. Crown of 8 leaves. Uses: Used for thatching." "Siona: ""Dadu"". Stem less rosette with 6-7 leaves and one inflorescence originating among the leaves. Flowers not expanded. Uses: Thatching. " Siona: "Hua-curí". Spanish: "Huacu", some doubt. A 20 m high tree, no sap., bark greyish, trunk 40 cm. dbl, branching from about halfway up, hanging over the river. Fruits bright orange, oval, 5.5 x 3 cm, with fleshy, oily, 6-7 mm thick mesocarp, center hollow, calyx remains 5-merous. Uses: The oil is extracted from the fruit by boiling in water and skimming the oil of the top of the water. The fruits is first ground. Fruits in alcohol. Pussed specimens sterile. |
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