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Ripe capsules dehisce or are cracked open by birds. Both ripe and unripe fruits are rather loosely attached at their stems, and may detach spontaneously if the tree is shaken. The fruit is a small three-valved top-shaped capsule encasing a single seed that is covered in a red, fatty aril (seedcoat) of 5–6 mm diameter. While the tree yields some ripe fruit year-round, the main fruiting season is March and April in the northern part of the tree's range. The gumbo-limbo is referred to, humorously, as the tourist tree because the tree's bark is red and peeling, like the skin of the sunburnt tourists who are a common sight in the plant's range. The bark is shiny dark red, and the leaves are spirally arranged and pinnate with 7-11 leaflets, each leaflet broad ovate, 4–10 cm long and 2–5 cm broad.

In the United States, specimens may be found in the Gulf of Mexico along the western coast of Florida.īursera simaruba is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 30 meters tall, with a diameter of one meter or less at 1.5 meters above ground. Bursera simaruba is prevalent in the Petenes mangroves ecoregion of the Yucatán, where it is a subdominant plant species to the mangroves. Terebinthus simaruba (L.) W.Wight ex Roseīursera simaruba, commonly known as gumbo-limbo, copperwood, chaca, West Indian birch, naked Indian, and turpentine tree, is a tree species in the family Burseraceae, native to the Neotropics, from South Florida to Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.Bursera integerrima (Tul.) Triana & Planch.

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