The Amazon rainforest, alternatively, the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 km 2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforestThis region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 Spondias (ANACARDIACEAE) Schefflera (ARALIACEAE) Jacaranda (BIGNONIACEACE) Ochroma BOMBACACEAE Cordia BORAGINACEAE Jacaratia CARICACEAE Cecropia CECROPIACEAE Pourouma CECROPIACEAE Terminalia COMBRETACEACE Muntingia TILIACEAE – MUNTINGIACEAE Aparisthmium EUPHORBIACEAE Croton EUPHORBIACEAE Curare (dtubocurarine) is the common name for an extract from various plants found in the Amazon Basin, including Strychnos toxifera and Strychnos mitscherlichii Indigenous hunters in the Amazon have long been using curare as an arrow poison In modern medicine, curare is used for general anesthesia and to treat muscular disorders
Trees Of The Amazon Rainforest In Pictures Environment The Guardian
