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Guazuma ulmifolia Lam.

Sterculiaceae

SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, West Indies) South America (tropics) int MW SW C and E Eurasia W and C Africa

SC SE

M[L]

D E

hel hyg->xer acid->neut calc sili

dr (bark or seed decoction with salt taken orally for digestive tract ailments and bad blood, emolient, green bark tea bath for heat rash, in laboratory test it shows significant antibacterial activity, inner bark compress for burn, inner bark enema for dysentery and hemorrhoids, leaves decoction or maceration for elephantiasis, leaves, bark or seed decoction with sugar taken orally for cold and high blood pressure, macerated bark massage for cough, pulverized bark compress for broken bone and sore, roots and fruits against venereal disease, the bark has been used in treating leprosy and many other disease, fruits and bark used for diarrhea, intestinal problems, renal infection, purgative and diuretic, used as a diarrheic in Nicaragua and Venezuela) fd (fruits are eaten raw when young, when mature are ground into flour or used as a substitute for coffee, honey, sap is used to clarify syrup in making sugar) fr (deer, squirrels, agouti, preccaries and lizard eat the fruits and disperse the seeds, foliage and fruits are valuable fodder for cattle and horses) fw (good firewood and charcoal) ma (bark used to make cords, the wood gives an excellent charcoal used to make a powder) pl (quick set hedge) ti (barrel staves, barrels, fence, boat ribs, cabinet work, carpentry, decorative accessories, fence posts, general heavy construction, gunstocks, heels of shoes, interior construction, joinery, light furniture, musical instruments, posts, railroad ties, shipbuilding, shoemaking, slack cask staves, stake, structural use, tablet, tool handles, woodword) sa (living fences) tx (excessive quantities may cause gastrointestinal ailments)

Bubroma grandiflorum Willd. ex Spreng. Bubroma invira Willd. Duiro glossum var. rufescens Turcz. Guazuma bubroma Tuss. Guazuma coriacea Rusby Guazuma grandiflora G.Don Guazuma guazuma (L.) Cockerell p.p. Guazuma invira (Willd.) G.Don Guazuma parvifolia A.Rich. Guazuma polybotrya Cav. Guazuma polybotrya DC. Guazuma tomentosa Kunth Guazuma ulmifolia Mill. Guazuma ulmifolia var. tomentella K.Schum. Guazuma ulmifolia var. tomentosa (Kunth) K.Schum. Guazuma utilis Poepp. & Endl. Theobroma guazuma Aubl.

elmleaf guazuma; ba cedar (Cayman); bastard cedar (Belize, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico); bastard-cedar (Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad); bay cedar, bay-cedar, box cedar (Belize); caulote (Belize); cork bottom wood (Belize); gunstak (Lesser Antilles); pigeon-wood (Tobago); pixoy (Belize); pricklenut (Mexico); West Indian elm (Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad); West-Indian elm (Puerto Rico); wild bay cedar (Belize)

guazuma à feuilles d'orme; bois de hêtre (Haiti, Lesser Antilles); bois de hêtre vert; bois de l'orme (Haiti); bois d'homme (Haiti, Lesser Antilles); bois d'orme (Lesser Antilles); bois l'orme (Trinidad and Tobago); bois madame, coton fleur, coton mahandème, coton soie (Lesser Antilles); hêtre gris (Guadeloupe); hêtre orme; hêtre vert (Guadeloupe); mahandème (Lesser Antilles); mahot-baba; mahot-hêtre (Guadeloupe); orme d'Amérique p.p. (Haiti, Lesser Antilles)

aquiche (Mexico); bolaina (Peru); cabeza de negrito (Panama); cablote (Central America); camba-acá, cambaaca (Argentina); capulin (Honduras); caulote (Central America, Colombia, Mexico); chicharron (El Salvador); coco (Bolivia); contamal (Guatemala); cuaulote (Mexico); guacima (Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Venezuela); guácima (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico); guacima cimarrona (Dominican Republic); guácima cimarrona; guacima de caballo, guácima de caballo (Cuba); guacimillo (Nicaragua); guacimo (Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Venezuela); guácimo (Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama); guacimo blanco, guácimo blanco (Costa Rica); guácimo bolaina negra (Peru); guacimo de ternero (Nicaragua, Panama); guácimo de ternero (Nicaragua); guácimo hembra (Costa Rica); guásima (Cuba); guásima de caballo (Cuba); guasimo (Colombia); gúasimo blanco (Venezuela); guazuma (Argentina, Dominican Republic); guázuma; guazumo (Honduras); guscimo (Mexico); huásimo; iluicho, iumanasi (Peru); jacocalulu (Puerto Rico); lana, lanera (Lesser Antilles); lluicho vainilla, lumanasi (Peru); majagua de toro (Mexico); marmelero (Argentina); miel quemada, naccdero (Colombia); palo de pana (Lesser Antilles); palote negro (Mexico); papa-yillo, papayillo (Peru); pechote, simaron del tzibche (Belize); tablote (Mexico); tapa culo (Guatemala); tapaculo (Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua); tomentosa (Colombia); tzuni, tzuyui, vacima (Mexico); vanilla (Peru); yaco de venado, yaco granadillo (Mexico); yumanase (Peru)

acashti (totonaco); aj-illá (guarigio); ajya (maya); aquich (huasteco); áquich (nahuatl, Mexico); aquiche (maya); araticum-bravo (Brazil); bwa dehèt, bwa dòm (creole, Haiti); cabeça de negro (Brazil); cambacau (guarani); embira, embireira, embiru, envireira, fruta-de-macaco (Brazil); goeaazoema (Netherlands Antilles); guacimo de ternero (Nicaragua); guamaca, guaxima-macho, guaxima-torcida, guaxuma macho (Brazil); jacocalalu (Virgin Islands); kabal-pixoy (maya); matamba, (Brazil); mutamba (portuguese, Brazil); mutamba-verdadeira, mutambo (Brazil); nipaltuntha (India); nocuana-yana (zapoteco); parandesicua (tarasco); pau-de-bicho, pau-de-pomba, periquiteira (Brazil); pix oy, pixoy (maya, Belize and Guatemala); pojó (Brazil); uiguie (popoluca); xuyuy (Guatemala); ya-ana (zapoteco); zam-mi (chontal)

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Latin name	Guazuma ulmifolia Lam.
Family	Sterculiaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, West Indies) South America (tropics) int MW SW C and E Eurasia W and C Africa
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M[L]
Foliage	D E
Ecology	hel hyg->xer acid->neut calc sili
Use	dr (bark or seed decoction with salt taken orally for digestive tract ailments and bad blood, emolient, green bark tea bath for heat rash, in laboratory test it shows significant antibacterial activity, inner bark compress for burn, inner bark enema for dysentery and hemorrhoids, leaves decoction or maceration for elephantiasis, leaves, bark or seed decoction with sugar taken orally for cold and high blood pressure, macerated bark massage for cough, pulverized bark compress for broken bone and sore, roots and fruits against venereal disease, the bark has been used in treating leprosy and many other disease, fruits and bark used for diarrhea, intestinal problems, renal infection, purgative and diuretic, used as a diarrheic in Nicaragua and Venezuela) fd (fruits are eaten raw when young, when mature are ground into flour or used as a substitute for coffee, honey, sap is used to clarify syrup in making sugar) fr (deer, squirrels, agouti, preccaries and lizard eat the fruits and disperse the seeds, foliage and fruits are valuable fodder for cattle and horses) fw (good firewood and charcoal) ma (bark used to make cords, the wood gives an excellent charcoal used to make a powder) pl (quick set hedge) ti (barrel staves, barrels, fence, boat ribs, cabinet work, carpentry, decorative accessories, fence posts, general heavy construction, gunstocks, heels of shoes, interior construction, joinery, light furniture, musical instruments, posts, railroad ties, shipbuilding, shoemaking, slack cask staves, stake, structural use, tablet, tool handles, woodword) sa (living fences) tx (excessive quantities may cause gastrointestinal ailments)
Synonym	Bubroma grandiflorum Willd. ex Spreng. Bubroma invira Willd. Duiro glossum var. rufescens Turcz. Guazuma bubroma Tuss. Guazuma coriacea Rusby Guazuma grandiflora G.Don Guazuma guazuma (L.) Cockerell p.p. Guazuma invira (Willd.) G.Don Guazuma parvifolia A.Rich. Guazuma polybotrya Cav. Guazuma polybotrya DC. Guazuma tomentosa Kunth Guazuma ulmifolia Mill. Guazuma ulmifolia var. tomentella K.Schum. Guazuma ulmifolia var. tomentosa (Kunth) K.Schum. Guazuma utilis Poepp. & Endl. Theobroma guazuma Aubl.
English name	elmleaf guazuma; ba cedar (Cayman); bastard cedar (Belize, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico); bastard-cedar (Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad); bay cedar, bay-cedar, box cedar (Belize); caulote (Belize); cork bottom wood (Belize); gunstak (Lesser Antilles); pigeon-wood (Tobago); pixoy (Belize); pricklenut (Mexico); West Indian elm (Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad); West-Indian elm (Puerto Rico); wild bay cedar (Belize)
French name	guazuma à feuilles d'orme; bois de hêtre (Haiti, Lesser Antilles); bois de hêtre vert; bois de l'orme (Haiti); bois d'homme (Haiti, Lesser Antilles); bois d'orme (Lesser Antilles); bois l'orme (Trinidad and Tobago); bois madame, coton fleur, coton mahandème, coton soie (Lesser Antilles); hêtre gris (Guadeloupe); hêtre orme; hêtre vert (Guadeloupe); mahandème (Lesser Antilles); mahot-baba; mahot-hêtre (Guadeloupe); orme d'Amérique p.p. (Haiti, Lesser Antilles)
Spanish name	aquiche (Mexico); bolaina (Peru); cabeza de negrito (Panama); cablote (Central America); camba-acá, cambaaca (Argentina); capulin (Honduras); caulote (Central America, Colombia, Mexico); chicharron (El Salvador); coco (Bolivia); contamal (Guatemala); cuaulote (Mexico); guacima (Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Venezuela); guácima (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico); guacima cimarrona (Dominican Republic); guácima cimarrona; guacima de caballo, guácima de caballo (Cuba); guacimillo (Nicaragua); guacimo (Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Venezuela); guácimo (Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama); guacimo blanco, guácimo blanco (Costa Rica); guácimo bolaina negra (Peru); guacimo de ternero (Nicaragua, Panama); guácimo de ternero (Nicaragua); guácimo hembra (Costa Rica); guásima (Cuba); guásima de caballo (Cuba); guasimo (Colombia); gúasimo blanco (Venezuela); guazuma (Argentina, Dominican Republic); guázuma; guazumo (Honduras); guscimo (Mexico); huásimo; iluicho, iumanasi (Peru); jacocalulu (Puerto Rico); lana, lanera (Lesser Antilles); lluicho vainilla, lumanasi (Peru); majagua de toro (Mexico); marmelero (Argentina); miel quemada, naccdero (Colombia); palo de pana (Lesser Antilles); palote negro (Mexico); papa-yillo, papayillo (Peru); pechote, simaron del tzibche (Belize); tablote (Mexico); tapa culo (Guatemala); tapaculo (Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua); tomentosa (Colombia); tzuni, tzuyui, vacima (Mexico); vanilla (Peru); yaco de venado, yaco granadillo (Mexico); yumanase (Peru)
Other name	acashti (totonaco); aj-illá (guarigio); ajya (maya); aquich (huasteco); áquich (nahuatl, Mexico); aquiche (maya); araticum-bravo (Brazil); bwa dehèt, bwa dòm (creole, Haiti); cabeça de negro (Brazil); cambacau (guarani); embira, embireira, embiru, envireira, fruta-de-macaco (Brazil); goeaazoema (Netherlands Antilles); guacimo de ternero (Nicaragua); guamaca, guaxima-macho, guaxima-torcida, guaxuma macho (Brazil); jacocalalu (Virgin Islands); kabal-pixoy (maya); matamba, (Brazil); mutamba (portuguese, Brazil); mutamba-verdadeira, mutambo (Brazil); nipaltuntha (India); nocuana-yana (zapoteco); parandesicua (tarasco); pau-de-bicho, pau-de-pomba, periquiteira (Brazil); pix oy, pixoy (maya, Belize and Guatemala); pojó (Brazil); uiguie (popoluca); xuyuy (Guatemala); ya-ana (zapoteco); zam-mi (chontal)
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