Hymenaea courbaril, Inga megacarpa, Hymenaea animifera

Plant has "Stinking Toe" name because its seedpods look like big, fat toes and are said to smell like smelly feet or toes. The fruit is however very delicious. The pulp of Stinking Toe is sweet tasting and eaten fresh or made into a beverage. Plant has also many uses in folk medicine from alleviating headaches to treating gout. White, fragrant flowers are pollinated by bats. This plant produces usable copal resins, mostly underground and at the base of the tree. Orange sticky gum converts to amber, but this process takes millions of years. This forms a hard polymer that is resistant to natural decay processes.

Similar plants:

• Hymenaea verrucosa (Copalier, Gum Copal)
• Mansoa alliacea, Pachyptera hymenaea, Pseudocalymma alliacea, Cydista aequinoctialis (Garlic Vine, Cipo de Alho, Equinox Vine, Cydista)
• Calliandra emarginata, Inga emarginata (Powderpuff)
• Calliandra tweedii, Inga pulcherrima (Red Tassel Flower)
• Inga edulis, Inga feuilleei, (Ice Cream Bean, Inga, Guama, Guaba)
• Inga ilta (Inga)
• Inga jinicuil, Feuilleea jinicuil, Inga peterno (Paterno)
• Inga nobilis (Guama Venezolano)
• Inga spectabilis (Ice Cream Bean, Guabo, Guaba machete)
• Inga uruguensis (Inga banana)