In a nutshell
• Brazilian nut trees are the largest and oldest trees in the Amazon. They can live for 550 years, and produce nuts for about 150 years.
• They are also the stoutest trees of the Amazon, with girths measuring up to 16.5 metres.
• They are remarkably fertile, dropping vast quantities of nuts that are packaged inside hard pods, the size of grapefruit. The pods are produced for three months a year.
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