Lucuma multiflora is a plant in the family Sapotaceae of the order Ericales. Its English common name is bullytree. Its Spanish common names include jácana,Pouteria multiflora A.DC. Eyma: Sapotaceae - Sapodilla family. John A. Parrotta and John K. Francis. USDA. Forest Service. Publication Number: SO-ITF-SM-62. August 1993. Retrieved 12 September 2013. ácana, acana, hacana, or jacana. It is native to North and South America.Pouteria multiflora (A. DC.) Eyma; bullytree. USDA. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Plants Database. Retrieved 12 September 2013. The plant is common in the Toro Negro State Forest.Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro. Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. [Publication/Issue: P-030] Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. (in Spanish) Retrieved 12 September 2013.
It grows to in hight and 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, and durable, and can be polished to a shine. The pores are small and arranged in radial rows, and the pith rays narrow and indistinct.
A similar definition of the acana tree is given by Constantino Suarez in his Diccionario de voces Cubanas, as a wild 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.
Acana in the arts Poem: "Song of the Acana Tree" (Spanish: Canto del Acana) by Minerva Salado Poem: "Acana" by Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén Music: "Acana", by Cuban composer Tania León
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