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Ethnobotanical Plant Yucca aloifolia

Common Name
Yucca; Bayoneta

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
Diuretic Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Diuretic Haiti Brutus, T.C., and A.V. Pierce-Noel. 1960. Les Plantes et les Legumes d'Hati qui Guerissent. Imprimerie De L'Etat, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
Lung Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Purgative Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Soap Mexico Duke, 1992 *
Soap Mexico Duke, 1992 *
Tumor Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Tumor Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *