maccao

Updated: January 27, 2026

The fruit, also, is largely consumed; while the wood is excessively durable in water. Two lofty trees, closely allied to each other the Lecythis ollaria and the Bertholletia excelsa produce enormous capsules full of nuts. The first, called the sapucaya, yields these curious capsules known as cuyas de maccao, or monkeys' drinking-cups.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America