LUPUNA tree of the Amazon and Central America, of a height of 60 to 70 meters, and a huge trunk of up to 3 netros in diameter. It belongs to the family of malvaceae. It is a ceiba of whose seeds, leaves and resin medicinal herbs are produced to cure kidney conditions, fever, asthma, diarrhea and dysentery. In some places in Brazil it is used against cancer and inflammations. It is used to make furniture and formerly for guajiberas canoes and rafts.