Taxon: Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth.

Common names:

• blackbead   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – English
  
• camachile   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• guayamochil   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 2:256.) – English
  
• Madrasthorn   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• Manila-tamarind   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• sweet-inga   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 2:256.) – English
  
• pois sucré   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Camambilarinde   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• opiuma   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – Hawaiian
  
• guamúchil   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• huamúchil   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• madre de flecha   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry   (fide Mem NYBG 74(2):25. 1997)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Mem NYBG 74(2):25. 1997)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Mem NYBG 74(2):25. 1997)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Trop Leg)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (not best quality fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja California, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua
  Northern South America: Venezuela [w.]
  Western South America: Colombia [n. & w.]

• naturalized elsewhere in tropics

• also cultivated

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Barneby, R. C. & J. W. Grimes. 1997. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part II. Pithecellobium, Cojoba, and Zygia. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74(2):23.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. [cult.].
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [natzd.].
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Isely, D. 1973. Leguminosae of the United States: I. Subfamily Mimosoideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(1):113.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 2:256.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pithecellobium dulce.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pithecellobium dulce.

Synonyms:

• (=) Inga dulcis (Roxb.) Willd.
  
• (=) Mimosa dulcis Roxb.
  

Check other web resources for Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth.:

• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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