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Swartzia - Photo (c) Alex Popovkin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Alex Popovkin CC
Genus Swartzia Info
Swartzia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It was named in honor of Swedish botanist Olof Swartz and contains about 200 species. Swartzia is restricted in its geographical distribution to the New World Tropics, where it occurs primarily in lowland rainforests, but also in savannas, pre-montane forests, and tropical dry forests. While it can be found throughout the wet lowlands from Mexico and the Caribbean islands to southern Brazil and Bolivia, Swartzia is... (Wikipedia)
Ironheart - Photo (c) Günter Baumann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) CC
Ironheart (Bobgunnia madagascariensis) Info
Bobgunnia madagascariensis (Bambara: Samagara), also called the snake bean plant, is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family. (Wikipedia)
Swartzia panacoco - Photo (c) Hervé GALLIFFET, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Hervé GALLIFFET CC
Swartzia panacoco Info
Swartzia panacoco, known as panococo or Brazilian ebony, is a tree of the bean family, growing in Guyana, South America. Its wood is hard and durable. The heartwood ranges from an olive brown to a near black color and can have lighter or darker markings that are sharply separated from the sapwood, which is lighter and yellow in appearance. According to "The Treasury of Botany" published by Longmans, Green, and Co. of London in 1866 for... (Wikipedia)
Swartzia robiniifolia - Photo (c) May Bedoya, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by May Bedoya CC
Swartzia robiniifolia Info
Swartzia robiniifolia is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family. It is found only in Colombia. (Wikipedia)