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Pithecellobium dulce, Mimosa dulcis
21.0987, -89.5985
Field Notes
Description:
A medium sized tree. Flowers are mimosid, the fruit is legume which opens suddenly when it ripes. The seeds are covered whith a sweet flesh (dulce, the specific name means sweet in spanish and I suspect also in Latin) which attracts dispersors such as birds and even humans.
Habitat:
Its located in wet, dry and seasonally dry tropical forests in the Yucatan Peninsula
Notes:
On the archaeological site Dzibichaltún
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