''Lonchocarpus pluvialis'', commonly known as ''cuquí'' in the eastern
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
n departments of
Santa Cruz and
the Beni to which it is endemic, is a species of
lancepod that typically grows to a height of 10 to 15 meters and is known for attracting large swarms of
honeybees
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus ''Apis'' of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the cur ...
. Bolivians commonly distinguish between two varieties of the plant: one with yellow flowers and one with white. The flexible bark of ''L. pluvialis'' has traditionally been used to make small, flimsy boxes that serve as containers for cut tobacco, candies, or sewing supplies.
References
pluvialis
'' Pluvialis '' is a genus of plovers, a group of wader, wading birds comprising four species that breed in the temperate or Arctic Northern Hemisphere.
In breeding plumage, they all have largely black underparts, and golden or silvery upperpart ...
Flora of Bolivia
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