Pouteria multiflora explained

Pouteria multiflora is a plant in the family Sapotaceae of the order Ericales. Its English common name is bullytree. Its Spanish common names include jácana,^[1] ácana, acana, hacana, or jacana. It is native to North and South America.^{[2] [3]} The plant is common in the Toro Negro State Forest.^[4]

It can grow from high and from in diameter. It yields very good timber that can be used for mill rollers, frames, furniture, and house building. Acana wood is light colored, fine and straight grained, hard, very heavy, strong, durable, and can be polished to shine. The pores are small and arranged in radial rows. Pith rays narrow and indistinct.^[5]

A similar definition of the Acana tree is given by Constantino Suarez in his Diccionario de voces Cubanas as; wild indigenous tree with a straight trunk that grows to 10 meters with coriaceous rigid oval leaves which produces a nutritious fruit smaller than the zapote, and whose wood is valued in Cuba for rustic houses and ship building because of the wood's durability and hardness, qualities enhanced by its sonority, weight, and beautiful reddish color.^[6]

Acana in the arts

• Poem: "Song of the Acana Tree" (Spanish: Canto del Acana) by Minerva Salado^[7]
• Poem: "Acana" by Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén^[8]
• Music: "Acana", by Cuban composer Tania León^[9]

Notes and References

1. http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/pubs/sm_iitf062%20%20(5).pdf Pouteria multiflora A.DC. Eyma: Sapotaceae - Sapodilla family.
2. Book: Grandtner. M. M.. Chevrette. Julien. 2013. Academic Press. 9780123969545. 527. en.
3. http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=pomu6 Pouteria multiflora (A. DC.) Eyma; bullytree.
4. http://www.drna.gobierno.pr/biblioteca/publicaciones/hojas-de-nuestro-ambiente/30-Toro%20Negro%20ultimo.pdf Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro.
5. Book: Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1917. Department of Agriculture. 4–.
6. Book: Gustavo Pérez Firmat. The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature. registration. June 15, 1989. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-32747-3. 107–.
7. Book: Catherine Davies. A Place in the Sun?: Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba. 1997. Zed Books. 978-1-85649-542-4. 169–.
8. Book: Gustavo Pérez Firmat. The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature. registration. June 15, 1989. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-32747-3. 106–.
9. News: Bernard Holland. An Ensemble Finds Unity With a Seasoned Soprano. The New York Times. April 3, 2008.