About Our Trees

 

Depending of the type of seed you choose you will be able to give life to the diferent types of species and mantain a sustainable eco-system for the future flora and fauna.

DIPHYSA AMERICANA

Guachipilin

Diphysa Americana

Papilionaceae

Is a tree that reaches a height of 15 m, but on sites with fertile soils can reach up to 22 meters are usually branches from the middle of the stem, its crown is wide and irregular. Thin out the twigs are green to gray, with white lenticels very small and large cracks. The court-ing of young trees is very striking because it has large number of long vertical cracks yellow strong.

The flowers are in axillary racemes of very showy yellow. The fruits are oblong-Brès Legum, which is not open by themselves, pale brown, 5 to 7 cm long and 6 mm thick. The outer layer is thin and fragile, with a thin central partition forming two compartments containing about six seeds oblong, 6 mm long. Pulses are dispersed by wind. Legumes, Stipe, valves vesicular margins ribbed, glabrous, reticulate.
Is a species native to a large and wide distribution is usually from 0 to 900Mts (although naturally there are copies to 1200msnm). Can be found in both wet and dry forest.
Its main product is wood, which usually is used in places where people need high resistance to adverse weather conditions. Today it is used for factories the bases of the cottages and other rural buildings such as pens, bridges, beams, posts and poles for dead fences, pillars, decorative Horcones, bodywork, handles for tools and farm implements, axes a cart, mine poles, sleepers, clubs and coffee pulping cylinders, cylinder heads and caches of weapons fire, mortars rice.