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Ethnobotanical Plant Byrsonima crassifolia

Common Name
Maricao; Peralejo; Cajuil Cimarron; Nanche; Madrono

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
Liqueur Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Liqueur Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Liqueur Mexico Standley, Paul C. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contributions U.S. National Herbarium, vol. 23. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Metrorrhagia Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Piscicide Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide Venezuela Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Pyorrhea Panama Gupta, M.P., et al. 1979. Ethnopharmacognostic observations on Panamanian medicinal plants. Part I. Quarterly journal of crude drug research 17(3-4):115-130.
Skin Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Sore Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Tumor(Leg) Mexico Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.