Lecythis pisonisCambess.

Cream nut

WFO wfo-0000774428 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Lecythis pisonis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. a Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-04 / obs. 126537041
Lecythis pisonis, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. b Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179278365
Lecythis pisonis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. c Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126537342
Lecythis pisonis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. d Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126537088
Lecythis pisonis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. e Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115640552
Lecythis pisonis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. f Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126536960
Lecythis pisonis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. g Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126537145
Lecythis pisonis, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. h Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126537393

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Couroupita crenulata Miers
  • Couroupita lentula Miers
  • Lecythis amapaensis Ledoux
  • Lecythis amazonii Mart. ex O.Berg
  • Lecythis densa Miers
  • Lecythis hoppiana R.Knuth
  • Lecythis ollaria Spruce
  • Lecythis ollaria Vell.
  • Lecythis paraensis Huber
  • Lecythis paraensis Huber ex Ducke
  • Lecythis pilaris Miers
  • Lecythis pisonis subsp. usitata (Miers) S.A.Mori & Prance
  • Lecythis setifera Miers
  • Lecythis sphaeroides Miers
  • Lecythis urnigera Mart.
  • Lecythis usitata Miers
  • Lecythis usitata var. paraensis (Huber ex Ducke) R.Knuth
  • Lecythis usitata var. tenuifolia R.Knuth
  • Lecythis velloziana Miers
  • Pachylecythis egleri Ledoux

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.