Taxon: Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.) Willd.

• the 12 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• divi-divi   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• cascalote   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• dibidibi   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• guaracabuya   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• guatapana   (Source: F PuertoR ) – Spanish
  
• nacascol   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• nacascolote   (Source: F Guat ) – Spanish
  
• dividivi   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed13)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Sinaloa
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Oaxaca
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource). [= Libidibia coriaria].
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica. [= Libidibia coriaria].
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Isely, D. 1975. Leguminosae of the United States: II. Subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(2):37.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Ulibarri, E. A. 1996. Sinopsis de Caesalpinia y Hoffmannseggia (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) de sudamérica. Darwiniana 34:312.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Caesalpinia coriaria.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Caesalpinia coriaria.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Caesalpinia coriaria.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Libidibia coriaria (Jacq.) Schltdl.
  
• (≡) Poinciana coriaria Jacq. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.) Willd.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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:

• 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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