PARADISE NUT

a sweet oily nut resembling the Brazil Nut, but with a thinner, smoother shell, the fruit of a large forest tree growing in the Amazon valley. The nuts are formed inside a large urn-shaped shell, commonly known as a "Monkey Pot," similar in construction to that enclosing Brazil Nuts but generally much larger.

The high cost and comparative scarcity of Paradise Nuts are attributable to the fact that when the mature pod falls to the ground, the natural gas formed inside blows out the neatly fitting lid which nature has fashioned for the top of the urn or "pot," scattering many of the nuts among the dense tropical undergrowth and at the same time emitting a characteristic report which brings all the monkeys in the neighborhood rushing to the feast!