how did brazil nut get its common name the fact that there are more brazil nuts in bolivia?

Answer 1

ichi-ni-san is right my wife is or used to be my babysitter (I marry her now, she is from Brazil and she agrees with Brazil getting Its name from the NUTs

Answer 2

Brazil Nut Name

Answer 3

The three-sided, hard, dark-shelled Brazil nut grows in clusters at the end of thick branches inside coconut-like pods called cocos (Portuguese). The nut is grown in the Amazon rain forests of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. The Brazil nut tree is enormous, reaching a height of 100 to 150 feet or more. It can also live a long life of 500 to 800 years. (The trees grow very slowly, taking as long as 10 to 30 years before producing nuts.) They require a specific species of bee to pollinate the flowers (which produce the fruit) and a small ground mammal called the agouti to break open the pods and spread the seeds. For these reasons, the Amazon is the only place these nuts have been grown successfully. When the fruit is ripe, it falls from the tree, from January to June, usually with a loud crashing sound. Inside each fruit pod are 12 to 25 Brazil nuts, each within its own individual shell. Older Brazil nut trees can produce approximately 300 or more of these fruit pods annually. The pods are gathered when they have fallen from the trees and then must be chopped open in order to obtain the nuts. Brazil nuts taste rich and creamy, and their meat is similar in texture to coconut. These nuts can be eaten raw, roasted and salted.

Answer 4

The name of Brazil is somewhat controversial. The major theory states it was renamed after brazilwood, an abundant species in the new-found land, which was valuable in Portuguese commerce. This plant has a strong red color, so "Brasil" is derived from the Portuguese word "brasa", meaning "ember".

The early explorers brought back a wood that produced a red dye, pau-brasil, from which the land received its name.

As for the "Brazil nuts" - true it is that Bolivia exports more. In Brazil these nuts are called castanhas-do-Pará, literally "chestnuts from Pará," a state in Brazil. I suppose they were called "Brazil nuts" as they are native to the area and named after the larger more well known country in the region.

Answer 5

Ichi-ni-san is wrong, Brazil's name do not come from the nuts. Brazil's name comes from a tree called Brazil.

Answer 6

This Brazil nuts are making me thirsty!

Answer 7

Because it was first found in Brazil.

Answer 8

I dunno but here's a little tidbit. I heard that Brazil got its name from the nut. Not the other way around. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. I guess Bolivia was Spanish and they already chose a name. Whereas the Portuguese seeing these nuts named the place after it. No that last part I made up, but the first bit is supposedly true.

Answer 9

Have you ever seen a brazilian's nuts? That's how it got it's name :D

jk.

I think because they probably first seen or originated from there. You know, for instance, like Mandarin Oranges (when you say Mandarin, you usually think Chinese or in that area) when we all know many of them are grown in our own backyard (U.S.A.).