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Ethnobotanical Plant Quassia amara

Common Name
Quassia; Simaruba; Palo Muneco; Cuassia; Surinam Quassia; Jamaica Bark

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
Vermicide Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Vermifuge 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.