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Bursera simaruba, bark of the Gumbolimbo or Copperwood Tree

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Found through the northern Neotropics and Caribbean. Locals refer to it as the Tourist Tree, as the bark flakes off like the skin of sunburned tourists. Photo from Central Nicaragua.In context at www.dixpix.ca/meso_america/Flora/sapandales/index.html

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