Lucuma multiflora
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Sapotaceae |
| Genus: | Lucuma |
| Species: | L. multiflora
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| Lucuma multiflora | |
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Lucuma multiflora is a plant in the family Sapotaceae of the order Ericales.[2] Its English common name is bullytree.[3] Its Spanish common names include jácana,[4] ácana, acana, hacana, or jacana. It is native to North and South America.[5][3] The plant is common in the Toro Negro State Forest.[6]
It grows to 40–90 feet (12–27 m) in hight and 2–3 feet (0.61–0.91 m) in diameter. It yields very good timber that can be used for mill rollers, frames, furniture, and house building. Acana wood is light-colored, fine- and straight-grained, hard, very heavy, strong, and durable, and can be polished to a shine. The pores are small and arranged in radial rows, and the pith rays narrow and indistinct.[7]
A similar definition of the acana tree is given by Constantino Suarez in his Diccionario de voces Cubanas, as a wild tree with a straight trunk that grows to 10 meters, with coriaceous rigid oval leaves, which produces a nutritious fruit smaller than the zapote, and whose wood is valued in Cuba for rustic houses and ship building because of the wood's durability and hardness, qualities enhanced by its sonority, weight, and beautiful reddish color.[8]
Acana in the arts
[edit | edit source]- Poem: "Song of the Acana Tree" (Spanish: Canto del Acana) by Minerva Salado[9]
- Poem: "Acana" by Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén[10]
- Music: "Acana", by Cuban composer Tania León[11]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. Pouteria macrocarpa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T34407A9864484. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T34407A9864484.en. Accessed 14 April 2025.
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- ^ a b Pouteria multiflora (A. DC.) Eyma; bullytree. USDA. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Plants Database. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ Pouteria multiflora A.DC. Eyma: Sapotaceae - Sapodilla family. John A. Parrotta and John K. Francis. USDA. Forest Service. Publication Number: SO-ITF-SM-62. August 1993. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
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- ^ Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro. Archived 2015-08-07 at the Wayback Machine Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. [Publication/Issue: P-030] Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. (in Spanish) Retrieved 12 September 2013.
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- IUCN Red List vulnerable species
- Lucuma
- Trees of the Caribbean
- Flora of the United States Virgin Islands
- Flora of Hispaniola
- Trees of Cuba
- Trees of Peru
- Trees of Puerto Rico
- Trees of Colombia
- Trees of Jamaica
- Trees of Ecuador
- Trees of Bolivia
- Trees of Venezuela
- Trees of Panama
- Trees of Brazil
- Plants described in 1844
- Taxa named by Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle
- Tree stubs