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Mora (plant)

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being up to seven inches (18 cm) in length, six inches (15 cm) in breadth and three inches (7.6 cm)in thickness, and a weight of up to 2.2 pounds (1,000 grams). These very large beans develop out of tiny flowers with a pistel only one millimeter wide involving a growth of over
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Ivan T. Sanderson and David Loth, "Ivan Sanderson's Book of Great Jungles" (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965) p. 116.
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Elbert L. Little and Robert G. Dixon, "Arboles Comunes de la Provincia de Esmerelda" (Rome: UNFAO, 1969)p. 222.
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O.N. Allen and Ethel K. Allen, "The Leguminosae" (Madison: Univ. Wisconsin Press) pp. 445-446
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Daniel H. Janzen, "Costa Rican Natural History" (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press,1983) p. 281
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spp. are edible if boiled, and are also the source of a red dyestuff. The species
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in northern South America, southern Central America, the southern
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Beard, J. S. (July 1946). "The Mora Forests of Trinidad...etc".
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is one of the few rainforest trees to grow in pure stands.
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Some of the species are important for timber production.
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Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Fabales
Fabaceae
Caesalpinioideae
Dimorphandra Group A
Mora
Benth.
Caesalpinioideae
legume
Fabaceae
Caesalpinaceae
Fabales
species
rainforests
Caribbean
Hispaniola
dicot
Mora abbottii
Caribbean
Mora ekmanii
Trinidad and Tobago
Guyana
Suriname

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