Lucuma multiflora

Lucuma multiflora is a plant in the family Sapotaceae of the order Ericales.^[2] Its English common name is bullytree.^[3] Its Spanish common names include jácana,^[4] ácana, acana, hacana, or jacana. It is native to North and South America.^[5][3] The plant is common in the Toro Negro State Forest.^[6]

Lucuma multiflora
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Sapotaceae
Genus:	Lucuma
Species:	L. multiflora
Binomial name
Lucuma multiflora A.DC.
Synonyms[2]
Synonymy Achras acana Sessé & Moc. Lucuma dussiana Pierre ex Duss Lucuma macrocarpa Huber Lucuma martinicensis Pierre Lucuma multiflora var. urbanii (Pierre) Dubard Lucuma quadrifida Pierre Lucuma stahliana Pierre Lucuma urbanii Pierre Pouteria carabobensis Pittier Pouteria dussiana (Pierre ex Duss) Stehlé Pouteria huberiana Rizzini Pouteria macrocarpa (Huber) Ducke Pouteria martinicensis (Pierre) Stehlé Pouteria medicata García-Barr. Pouteria multiflora (A.DC.) Eyma Pouteria multiflora var. quadrifida (Pierre) Baehni Pouteria multiflora var. urbanii (Pierre) Baehni Pouteria multiflora var. tipica (A. DC.) Baehni, not validly publ. Pouteria officinalis García-Barr. Radlkoferella dussiana Pierre Radlkoferella guadelupensis Pierre Radlkoferella latifolia Fawc. Radlkoferella macrocarpa (Huber) Aubrév. Radlkoferella martinicensis Pierre Radlkoferella multiflora (A.DC.) Pierre Radlkoferella quadrifida Pierre Radlkoferella urbanii Pierre Sapota latifolia (Fawc.) Kuntze Vitellaria multiflora (A.DC.) Radlk.

It can grow from 40–90 feet (12–27 m) high and from 2–3 feet (0.61–0.91 m) in diameter. It yields very good timber that can be used for mill rollers, frames, furniture, and house building. Acana wood is light colored, fine and straight grained, hard, very heavy, strong, durable, and can be polished to shine. The pores are small and arranged in radial rows. Pith rays narrow and indistinct.^[7]

A similar definition of the Acana tree is given by Constantino Suarez in his Diccionario de voces Cubanas as; wild indigenous tree with a straight trunk that grows to 10 meters with coriaceous rigid oval leaves which produces a nutritious fruit smaller than the zapote, and whose wood is valued in Cuba for rustic houses and ship building because of the wood's durability and hardness, qualities enhanced by its sonority, weight, and beautiful reddish color.^[8]

Acana in the arts

• Poem: "Song of the Acana Tree" (Spanish: Canto del Acana) by Minerva Salado^[9]
• Poem: "Acana" by Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén^[10]
• Music: "Acana", by Cuban composer Tania León^[11]