On Sunday 08 September 2002 05:23, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Interesting problem. Most of the search engine
results seem to use the
term in an identical phrase. That suggests a lot of uncritical copying.
I'm inclined to think that the name Buitach is the corruption of
something else. IMHO the candidate for this is the genus Bowdichia
(Common name Sucupira). This is a tropical hardwood tree, whose seeds
and bark are reported to have medicinal qualities. It's range fits in
with what is said about Candiru.
Bowdichia is in Fabaceae, and I have a hard time imagining someone describing
the fruit of any Fabacea as an "apple". gg:bowdichia candiru turned up
nothing; gg:sucupira candiru turned up very little, mostly wordlists.
phma