Couroupita guianensis
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia,
17th Nov '25
#CouroupitaGuianensis #CannonballTree
#Lecythidaceae #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #BotanicGardens #plants #botany #garden #PublicGarden #flowers #FlowerReport

Barringtonia calyptrata(2)
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia
Oct 2025
#BarringtoniaCalyptrata #Lecythidaceae #CassowaryPine #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #botany #ozflora #NativeFlora #photography #bluesky #photographyofbluesky

Barringtonia calyptrata(1)
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia
Oct 2025
#BarringtoniaCalyptrata #Lecythidaceae #CassowaryPine #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #botany #ozflora #NativeFlora #photography #bluesky #photographyofbluesky

Barringtonia acutangula
Lecythidaceae
(Freshwater Mangrove)
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, October 2025
#BarringtoniaAcutangula #Lecythidaceae #FreshwaterMangrove #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #botany
#ozflora #NativeFlora #photography #bluesky

Couroupita guianensis
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia,
October 2025
#CouroupitaGuianensis #CannonballTree
#Lecythidaceae #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #BotanicGardens #plants #botany #garden #PublicGarden #flowers #FlowerReport

Planchonia careya
Lecythidaceae
(Cocky Apple)
Townsville, Queensland,
Australia
Oct 2025
#PlanchoniaCareya #Lecythidaceae #CockyApple
#ozplants #Australiannature #botany #wildoz #nature
#ozflora #botany #NativeFlora #Flora #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

Barringtonia asiatica
Lecythidaceae
20/10/2014
Daintree/Cape Tributation
Far North Queensland
#BarringtoniaAsiatica #Lecythidaceae #FishPoisonTree #Putat #SeaPoisonTree #MangroveHabitat #TropicalTrees #Botany #ozplants #ozflora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature

Couroupita guianensis
Lecythidaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
North Queensland, Australia
(Native to Panama -Tropical South America)
#Couroupita #Lecythidaceae #Cauliflory #CannonballTree #AndersonGardens #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #plants #botany #garden #PublicGarden

Lecythis minor produces tasty nuts in which Se hyperaccumulates. The toxic effects on humans include nausea, vomiting, hair & nail loss, & a peculiar breath & body odor that lingers for days after eating the nuts. 📷: Santiago Madriñán CCBYNC4 #Lecythidaceae #selenium #heavymetal #Botany 🌾🧪

Photo looking up into a leafy tree. Two woody fruits –looking like brown jars—hang from the branches. The lids and seeds inside have fallen away already.

Photo of hand holding a woody conical structure. It is the lid that has fallen out of the fruit. The lid is about 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter.

Bonus #Lecythidaceae post: The fruits of Lecythis pisonis open to release hard seeds. Secondarily dispersed is by animals. Photo 1 shows the empty capsules hanging from the tree. Photo 2 is the lid. #Lecythidaceae #zoochory #dispersal #TropicalBotany 📷: Tarciso Leão CCBY2 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of clusters of oblong, brown fruits hanging from leafy branches. The fruits have been nibbled by animals to reveal a yellow interior.

Close-up photo of the fruit. A hand hold a single fruit with a portion of the flesh gnawed away to reveal the woody endocarp.

The fruits of Grias neuberthii, a tree from Colombia, Ecuador & Peru, are drupes that are sometimes consumed by humans (mostly as famine food). Wild animals (which ones?) disperse the seeds. #Lecythidaceae #zoochory #dispersal #TropicalBotany 📷: Attila Oláh CCBY4 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Studio photo portrait of a capsule (ca. 3 x 6 cm) and the seeds from within it. The seeds are elliptical and are surrounded by a single wing.

Couratari guianensis, a tree from n. South America, has fruits that open when the lid falls off – it’s a circumscissile capsule or pyxis. Winged seeds spill out and are dispersed by the wind. #Lecythidaceae #anemochory #dispersal #TropicalBotany 📷: Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal CCBY4 #Botany 🌾🧪

Photo of a hand holding a black, 4-angled, turbinate fruit about 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter. A sandy beach is in the background.

The fruits of #Lecythidaceae are as diverse as the flowers. Barringtonia asiatica has fibrous drupes that float on ocean currents in the Indian Ocean. They are common drift fruits of the region. #hydrochory #dispersal #TropicalBotany 📷: William Terry Hunefeld CCBY4. #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of a tall tree. Below the leafy crown are pendulous, leafless, flower-bearing branches.

I posted the strange flower of Couroupita guianensis earlier, but the tree is equally strange: It has dimorphic branches. Erect, “normal” branches form the tree’s crown. Pendulous, flower-bearing branches grow from the trunk below the crown. #Lecythidaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of a couple of pink, actinomorphic flowers nestled among large, strappy leaves.

Here’s Gustavia monocaulis. As the species epithet suggests, this species grows with a single stem or just a few main stems that bear rosettes of large, paddle-shaped leaves. It is a litter-trapping plant. #Lecythidaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Close-up of a cluster of cauliflorous, pink flowers borne among the foliage.

The flowers of Gustavia superba are radially symmetrical and have incurved stamens (a synapomorphy for this subfamily, Lecythidoideae). They are cauliflorous, i.e. borne on trunks and branches. #Lecythidaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Close-up photo of a few flowers with short, white petals and many long, slender, white stamens.

Barringtonia racemosa is not without petals, but they’re mostly hidden behind the glorious stamens. These flowers are pollinated by large bats in tropical Africa, s. Asia, New Guinea & Queensland, Australia. #Lecythidaceae #stamenflowers #stamen #pollination #bats #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪