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Chañar

Geoffroea decorticans

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Argentina.January 64, February 67, March 42, April 96, May 109, June 53, July 60, August 89, September 169, October 197, November 99, December 92.
Argentina1,137
La Pampa244
Santa Fe243
Córdoba228
Mendoza194
Buenos Aires149
Chile130
Región de Antofagasta53
San Luis49
Región de Atacama40

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
GenusGeoffroea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Chañar with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.