page_title: Dipteryx alata
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Dipteryx alata / Uses
caption_attribution_description: Dipteryx alata - FABACEAE Formosa - Goiás - Brasil.
context_page_description: Dipteryx alata is a large, undomesticated, edible nut-bearing tree from dryish tropical lowlands in central South America belonging to the legume family, Fabaceae, from the Dipterygeae tribe in the Faboideae subfamily. It is a wild species, widespread across the Cerrado savanna in South America.
context_section_description: It is used as lumber, for charcoal production and for shade in pastures, by the indigenous peoples of its range. The fruits are often used as feed for cattle. The seeds are a nutritious part of the local communities' diet.
  According to Alexiades some among the Ese Eja people, which have recently started using the hallucinogenic drug ayahuasca, see visions of concrete houses under the influence of this drug, which according to a source interviewed by Alexiades represents a tree of this species. Alexiades theorises that this tree is to be considered a "teacher plant" in the new ayahuasca shamanism that the Ese Eja have adopted and that it, in specific, and trees in general, represents the "future".
  Uses for the fruit can be summarized as:
caption: Fruits of Dipteryx alata hanging from a branch in Formosa, Goiás in July
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