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Pau brasil
Blast from the past Mr Spike
Pau brasil is from the group I have blood-red shiny heartwood
Caesalpinia, which belongs to the trunk covered by patchy and flaky
family Fabaceae. Fossil records show dark brown bark. My leaves branch
that its members lived in North out into small leathery leaflets, and
my flower stalks branch into fifteen
America more than sixty-five to forty yellow, strongly perfumed
million years ago. flowers, each with a red blotch in the
centre. My branches, leaves, and fruits
are all covered with small thorns.
Bio Length: 5–15 m; Life cycle: perennial I am a rare but famous
tree—famous because
the country where I live
got its name from me.
My name is pau brasil,
and I am from Brazil.
34–35
Blast from the past Mr Spike
Pau brasil is from the group I have blood-red shiny heartwood
Caesalpinia, which belongs to the trunk covered by patchy and flaky
family Fabaceae. Fossil records show dark brown bark. My leaves branch
that its members lived in North out into small leathery leaflets, and
my flower stalks branch into fifteen
America more than sixty-five to forty yellow, strongly perfumed
million years ago. flowers, each with a red blotch in the
centre. My branches, leaves, and fruits
are all covered with small thorns.
Bio Length: 5–15 m; Life cycle: perennial I am a rare but famous
tree—famous because
the country where I live
got its name from me.
My name is pau brasil,
and I am from Brazil.
34–35
