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Parota is a tree that grows in Mexico.
The Parota is a large, fast growing tree that grows in Mexico. Spanish speaking people refer to the tree as La Parota, but indigenous people refer to it as the Huanacaxtle. It can be found in the Mexican state of Nayarit, and perhaps in other states as well. The town of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle in Nayarit derives its name from the fact that a cross used to stand there made of Parota or Huanacaxtle wood. It's leaves resemble those of the Mimosa. The heart of the tree is used to make insect resistant items such as doors, windows, furniture, and cabinets. The heart of the tree is dark, soft, and oily to the touch. The outer layers of wood are light colored and soft, and decompose quickly when dead. The tree grows to an enormous size in diameter and bulk. Some trunk diameters are in excess of seven feet. The roots grow close to the surface, spreading out in all directions from the base of the tree. The tree sheds its leaves in January, February, or March of each year. It produces a large ear-shaped seed pod. The seed pod is often several inches across. The seed pods are produced a short time before it sheds all its leaves. The seed pods remain attached to the tree after the tree has lost all of its leaves. The seed pods dry to a dark brown color and fall to the ground during the time that the tree has no leaves. The seed pods, after drying, open, sometimes violently, hurling the seeds in all directions. The seed is harvested and eaten boiled by many Mexicans while the seed pods are still green. The seeds are light yellow in color. The tree produces a wispy, ball shaped, white or light yellow flower shortly after the new leaves begin growing. When the bark is cut, a thick brown sap is emitted, presumably to resist invasion of insects. The sap congeals to a soft but shape persistent form. Injuries to bark are healed over usually within one or two years, even if they are quite large, and are accompanied by emission of quantities of sap.
Harvested trees are usually girdled in order to kill them. Trees are left, sometimes for one or two years to dry in place. When harvested, only the heart is taken as the remainder of the wood decomposes quickly. The wood is sold as roughly cut hearts in the form of beams between 5 to 15 feet in length, with a thickness of from 4 to 30 inches. The carpenters who use the wood render it into suitably sized planks, depending upon the end product to be made.
