What is "inga"

Ironwood \I"ron*wood`\, n. (Bot.) A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.

Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum, and several other unrelated trees; in China, the Metrosideros vera; in India, the Mesua ferrea, and two species of Inga; in Australia, the Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, and in many countries, species of Sideroxylon and Diospyros, and many other trees.

n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Inga'' of small tropical trees and shrubs.

n. any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals

Ingå (; ) is a municipality of Finland.

Ingå is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .

The municipality is bilingual, with majority being Swedish and minority Finnish speakers.

Finnish national road 51 goes right through the southern part of Ingå.

The centre consists mainly of the road Bollstavägen that cuts through the Ingå centrum. Along the road are most of the major buildings and shops of the small municipality. A few grocery stores, small kiosk, library and a bar. Towards the Road 51 there is the residential area. Near road 51, at the northern tip of the residential area is the Ingå Volunteer Rescue Company. Nearby villages include Kusans.

Inga is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs.

Inga or Ingá may also refer to:

Ingá is one of the 48 administrative districts in which the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is divided. It lies in the southern zone of the city, in coast of the Guanabara Bay. It is named after ingá, a Brazilian native tree whose name is of Tupi origin.

From Ingá it is possible to see some of the most famous views of Rio de Janeiro skyline and landscape.

Category:Neighbourhoods of Niterói

Inga (common name shimbillo) is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs, subfamily Mimosoideae. Ingas leaves are pinnate, and flowers are generally white. Many of the hundreds of species are used ornamentally.

Several related plants have been placed into this genus at one time, for example Yopo (Cohoba, Mopo, Nopo or Parica – Anadenanthera peregrina – as Inga niopo).

The seeds are covered with sweet white powder. The pulp covering the seeds is lightly fibrous and sweet, and rich in minerals; it is edible in the raw state. The tree's name originates from the Tupi word in-gá meaning "soaked", due to the fruit powder consistency. The tree usually blossoms twice a year.

Within the Inga genus there are around 300 species, most of them native and growing in the Amazon forest region although some species are also found in Mexico, Greater and Lesser Antilles and other countries in South America, being an exclusively neotropical genus. The trees are usually found by river and lake edges because their seeds are carried there by floods.

All Inga species produce their seeds in "bean-like" pods and some can reach up to 1 m long, in general the pods are 10–30 cm long.

Trees can reach up to 15 metres and they are widely used for producing shade over coffee plants. The plant benefits from well drained soil. The flowers are white with some green and the tree can produce fruits almost all year long.

Inga species, most notably Inga edulis (commonly known as "ice-cream-bean" or, in Spanish, "guama", "guaba", "guaba de bejuco" or "paterna" depending on the country or region) often have edible pulp. The name derives from the fact that those of I. edulis resembles vanilla ice cream in flavour.

In Ecuador, Inga edulis is known as "guaba de bejuco" and, the other popular species there, Inga spectabilis , as "guaba de machete".

Inga is a 1968 Swedish sexploitation film directed by Joseph W. Sarno.

Inga (2014) is an Indian English novel written by Poile Sengupta. The story of the novel revolves around the life and struggles of Rapa, a Tamil Brahmin woman.

Sengupta is mainly known as a playwright and a theatre personality. "Inga" was her debut novel. The book was officially released on 30 October 2014 at Bangalore India.

Inga is a genus of moths of the Oecophoridae family.