Pará
-3.8500°S -52.4000°W · Q39517
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Pará. It sits in Brazil.
Brazil nuts are gathered across Amazonia; Pará was only the export door.
The nuts were collected from wild trees throughout the Amazon basin and shipped out of Belém in Pará, so the state's name traveled with the cargo. Almost the entire crop still comes from wild forest, which makes the tree an economic argument for leaving it standing.
One flower head makes the tongue buzz and the saliva run.
The plant is a staple of cooking in Pará, in northern Brazil, where it goes into the soup tacacá, and English named it for that state. The tingling comes from spilanthol, which also earned it the name toothache plant. It is sold elsewhere as Szechuan buttons or electric daisy.