Fabaceae
Monkeysoap
Enterolobium cyclocarpum
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Enterolobium
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Common names
By language (15)
- arz
- انتيرولوبيوم سيكلوكاربوم
- Basque
- Guanakaste
- Chinese
- 象耳豆, 榼藤, 红皮象耳豆
- Dutch
- Olifantsoorboom
- English
- Monkeysoap
- French
- Guanacaste, Oreille cafre
- German
- Guanacaste
- Hebrew
- אנטרולוביום עגול-פרי
- Indonesian
- Sengon buto, Sengon merah
- Lithuanian
- Tikroji rintausė
- Marathi
- कर्णफळ
- nah
- Cuauhnacaztli
- Spanish
- Arbol de guanacaste, Carocaro, Corotu, Corotú, Árbol de guanacaste
- Sundanese
- Séngon buto
- Tamil
- யானைக் காது மரம்
Synonyms
- Albizia longipes Britton & Killip
- Enterolobium cyclocarpa (Jacq.) Griseb.
- Feuilleea cyclocarpa (Jacq.) Kuntze
- Inga cyclocarpa (Jacq.) Willd.
- Mimosa cyclocarpa Jacq.
- Mimosa parota Sessé & Moc.
- Pithecellobium cyclocarpum (Jacq.) Mart.
- Prosopis dubia Kunth
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Puerto Rico: introduced
Photos
Photo: Avancari, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: AVM, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Solano Andres, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Esther V, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF Photo: Patrick Czerwinski, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF Photo: Smiley RamirezRodriguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF Photo: Andre Lenin Carreon, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF Photo: josef froehlich, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF Photo: Paulino Randolf Paulino, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.