The impressive pau d'arco tree of the Central and South American rain forests grows to well over 100 feet tall, with a trunk that can reach 6 feet wide. Tree-bark tea can cause side effects - Los ...

Pau-brasil was not named after the colony; Brazil was named after the wood. In Tourte’s time, 168 acres of central Paris were piled head-high with pau-brasil logs.

Pau brasil (Caesalpinia echinata), also known as Brazil wood or pernambuco, is the tree that gave the country its name. But over the centuries, about 95% of its original range in the Mata Atlantica ...

Protecting the Pau Brasil Ranty Islam 02/19/2015 February 19, 2015. The rare Pau brasil tree on Brazil's east coast is dying out. Its population can only be boosted with the help of local ...

The hope is to educate visitors about what's happening to species like the Pau-Brasil tree (Caesalpinia echinata). Violin bows are made from the wood, and the Pau-Brasil tree is threatened with ...

Brazil's name comes from the pau-brasil, Portuguese for Brazil tree, the country's national tree and a natural resource that played an important role in the economic development of the nation. 3.