Crossword-Solution: BERTHOLLETIA 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

This district is one of the chief collecting-grounds of the well-known Brazil-nut (_Bertholletia excelsa_), which is here very plentiful, grove after grove of these splendid trees being visible, towering above their fellows, with the “woody fruits, large and round as cannon-balls, dotted over the branches.” The Hyacinthine Macaw (_Ara hyacinthina_) is another natural wonder, first met with here.

The Sapucaya is not less abundant, probably, than the Bertholletia, but its nuts in falling are scattered about and eaten by wild animals; whilst the full, whole capsules of Brazil-nuts are collected by the natives.

Joaquim pointed out to us grove after grove of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) on the mainland.

Two of the largest and heaviest fruits known, however, the Brazil-nut fruit (Bertholletia) and Durian, grow on lofty forest trees, from which they fall as soon as they are ripe, and often wound or kill the native inhabitants.

The cipo passed from one tree to another without breaking its continuity, sometimes twisting round the trunks, sometimes garlanding the branches, here jumping form a dragon-tree to a rosewood, then from a gigantic chestnut, the _“Bertholletia excelsa,”_ to some of the wine palms, _“baccabas,”_ whose branches have been appropriately compared by Agassiz to long sticks of coral flecked with green.