AYAPANA TRIPLINERVIS=EUPATORIUM AYAPANA=EUPATORIUM TRIPLINERVIS=AYAPANA TRIPLINERVE ASTERACEAE The botanical genus Ayapana includes severals herbaceous plants native to South America.Some of them are traditionally used in South America and the West Indies.Ayapana…
ARBUTUS UNEDOERICACEAE The strawberry tree is a small tree or shrub native to the western Mediterranean region (North Africa, Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy) but which acclimatizes easily and can become…
EGYPTIAN BALSAMABORAGHSOAP MAKERSUMP BALANITES AEGYPTIACA ZYGOPHYLLACEAE The desert date tree has many local names, some examples: ABORAGH in the Tuareg language, SAVONNIER in CHAD, several names in Arabic (LALOB, HIDJIHI),…
Anacardium occidentale, cashew (caju in Portuguese) is a small tree probably native to the arid and sandy northeast of South America but which is now present in the majority of…
Unlike species of the Annona genus (see soursop and cinnamon apple) which are native to South America, ylang-ylang or cananga tree, CANANGA ODORATA, ANNONACEAE, is a tree from the forests…
The ASTERACEAE, are an immense family of flowering plants which contains several hundred botanical genera including the genus Vernonia = Gymnanthenum which also includes hundreds of species in Asia ,…
THYMES, LABIATEAE=LAMIACEAE, are small bushy plants, erect (common thyme) or more spreading and creeping (wild thyme), typical of the Mediterranean region where they grow naturally. Common Thyme, THYMUS VULGARIS, is…
This small botanical family, MYRISTICACEAE, comprises few genera and 380 species of trees in tropical forests, especially in the Indo-Malay region, Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. They are trees…
The shea butter tree or simply shea tree, VITELLARIA PARADOXA = BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SAPOTACEAE), is a tree of the African savannah (between 1000 and 1500 mm of annual rainfall) present…
The ZIZYPHUS botanical genus,(RHAMNACEAE) whose complex spelling of Latin origin is sometimes simplified into ZIZIPHUS (which can create confusion) exists in most continents. there are about forty species of trees…