the.com/brazil nut
The seed so picky it refuses to grow without the rainforest's last wild orchids.
means A large, rich, three-sided seed from the Amazonian tree Bertholletia excelsa, sold as a single nut though it grows packed many to a heavy woody pod.
from Named simply for Brazil, the country at the heart of the Amazon where the towering trees grow wild — the nut carries its homeland in its name. 'Brazil' itself comes from brazilwood, the red dyewood that gave the region its colonial name, from a word tied to 'ember' or 'glowing coal' (Portuguese brasa), for the wood's fiery hue. So the nut is, at a remove, named after embers.
- farming fail
- Cannot be commercially farmed; bees won't pollinate plantations
- radioactive snack
- Among the most radioactive foods, from deep-rooted radium
- strongman tree
- Towers 160 feet, lives over 500 years
- agouti partner
- Only one rodent can crack and replant its pods
- selenium bomb
- One nut exceeds your full daily selenium dose
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amazon rainforest — native to wild trees in peru, bolivia, and brazil, harvested from natural groves not plantations