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Ethnobotanical Plant Abuta rufescens

Activities

Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Poison Guiana Famshawe, D.B. 1949. Checklist of the indigenous woody plants of British Guiana. Forestry Bulletin No. 3. Forest Dept., British Guina.
Sclerosis(Liver) Nd Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.