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Home › Health › Foods › Spices › Brazil Nutmeg

Brazil Nutmeg

Brazil nutmeg, long nutmeg (M. fatua) is longer than the true species. Other species include M. oloba, cultivated in Madagascar, but not readily known in the commerical industry; M. sebifera, a common tree in the forests of Guyana and Northern Brazil to Panama. It is utilized mainly for the nut oil; and M. fragrans, the oldest and best known of these being a small widely branching tree growing to about twenty-five feet and supposedly indigenous to the Indian Archipelago. The fruit is about the size of a walnut.




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