Wild Flowering Plants

Burseraceae
Dacryodes excelsa   Vahl
Gonmyé
Puerto Rico to Lesser Antilles.
Common tree of lower montane rainforest.
Source material for traditional fishing canoes. Its huge size and straight bole free of buttresses make it ideal for this purpose and for saw timber.  Those persons who spent much time in the rainforest use the sap of the gonmyé to start their fires.
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