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Ethnobotanical Plant Bursera tomentosa

Common Name
Tacamahaca

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
Cicatrizant Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Medicine Venezuela Duke, 1992 *
Sore Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Tumor not available Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.