Just a few tree species dominate Amazon forest
Guest post by Jessica Shugart
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This Baboonwood tree, a member of the nutmeg family, bears fruit in the Mamiraua Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon and is one of the hyperdominant species found in the rainforest.
F. Wittmann