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Cavanillesia arborea

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Species of flowering plant

Cavanillesia arborea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Cavanillesia
Species: C. arborea
Binomial name
Cavanillesia arborea
(Willd.) K.Schum.

Cavanillesia arborea (common name barrigudo) is a flowering plant in the Baobab Family (Bombacaceae) native to the Caatinga region of Brazil. Fully mature specimens can have the appearance of a baobab (Adansonia digitata), but they can also assume the form of a brobdingnagian American football or rugby ball, balanced on a marvellously small base, swelling in the middle to as much as sixteen feet (five metres) and then constricting again just beneath the branches.

References

  1. Walker, C. C. (2022). "Cavanillesia Malvaceae". In Eggli, U.; Nyffeler, R. (eds.). Dicotyledons: Rosids. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 1–7. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85239-9_77-1. ISBN 978-3-030-85239-9.
  2. Schimper, Dr. A.F.W. (1903). Plant Geography on a Physiological Basis. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. pp. 349 plus figure 193.
  3. Jacobsen, Hermann (1960). Handbook of Succulent Plants. Vol. 1. London: Blandford Press. p. 259.
Taxon identifiers
Cavanillesia arborea


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