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English: ice cream bean
Spanish: guamá machete, guamá gigante

Ice cream bean is native to Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. It is cultivated as a curiosity throughout the tropics.
Medium size tree, to about 45 feet (14 m) tall, with a spreading crown. Small branches angular. Compound leaves with four pairs of elliptical or obovate leaflets, 4-9 inches (10-23 cm) long and 2-6 inches (5-15 cm) wide. Leaf veins prominent. Perfect flowers composed of numerous white stamens and a thin central pistil. The pods are large, up to 24 inches (61 cm) long and 3 inches (7.6 cm) wide, bright green when immature and becoming yellowish green at maturity. Edible white arils cover the shiny, dark brown, 1.5 inch (3.8 cm) long seeds. The pulp is very sweet, somewhat fibrous, and melts in the mouth like cotton candy.
Usda growing zone 9 -11

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