Couroupita

Couroupita is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus in 1775. It is native to tropical South America and Central America.


 * Species
 * 1) Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball tree -Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador  east to Amapá and south to Bolivia; naturalized in the West Indies as well as in Bangladesh,  Sri Lanka and Andaman & Nicobar
 * 2) Couroupita nicaraguarensis – Bala de cañón, coco de mono, paraíso, zapote de mico, or zapote de mono -Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
 * 3) Couroupita subsessilis - northern Brazil, northern Peru