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Master Record: treesna
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| Latin name |
Family |
Distribution |
North America distribution zone |
Height |
Foliage |
Ecology |
Use |
Synonym |
English name |
French name |
Spanish name |
Other name |
Trade name |
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Hura crepitans L.
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Euphorbiaceae
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S North America (Mexico to Panama, West Indies) South America (tropics) int S Eurasia and MW Africa (tropics)
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SW SC SE
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L[G]
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D
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hel hyg->xer
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dr (boiled leaves applied externally to abscess, hot leaves applied as a compress for rheumatism and headache, leaves decoction applied as a compress for trauma, seed is a powerful purgative, seed remedies are not recommended) dr(ob) fd fw (seeds) ma ma(ob) (woody fruit-covering was used as a sand sprinkler) pl pp? sa ti (boat plankings, boxes, cabinet work, cheap furniture, concrete forms, crates, decorative plywood, dugouts, general carpentry, interior construction, ornamental moulding, plywood corestock, rough carpentry, veneer) tx (latex, sap and seed, sap mixed with cornmeal or sand used as a barbasco for catching fish)
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Hura crepitans DC.
Hura crepitans Müll. Arg.
Hura strepens Willd.
Sterculia crepitans L.
Sterculia crepitans Mill.
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sandbox hura; hura, hura-wood (USA); huru; monkey dinner-bell (Belize); monkey pistol (Puerto Rico); monkey-pistol; possum wood (Brazil, USA); possum-tree (Jamaica); possumtree; possumwood (Ghana, USA); rakuda (USA); sandbox (Brazil, Ghana, Guyana, Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, USA); sandbox tree (Jamaica); sandbox-tree (Bahamas, Ghana, Netherlands Antilles, USA); urawood (Suriname); white cedar (Panama); zandkoker-boom (Netherlands Antilles)
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sablier crépitant; arbre au diable (Haiti); bois du diable (French Guiana, Martinique, Sénégal); bombardier (Sénégal); buis de sable (Haiti); hura détonnant; pet du diable (Haiti); sablier (French Guiana, Haiti, Sénégal); sablier elastique
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abia (Honduras); acuapar, acuápar, aranillo (Colombia); arbol del diablo (Colombia, Mexico); arenillero (Colombia); avilla (Honduras); castañeto (Colombia); catahua, catahua amarilla, catahua blanca (Peru); ceiba (Venezuela); ceiba amarilla (Colombia); ceiba blanca (Colombia, Venezuela); ceiba de leche (Colombia); ceiba habillo (Venezuela); ceiba lechosa, ceibo amarillo (Colombia); haba (Cuba, Mexico); habá, habana (Cuba); habilla (Central America, Colombia, Cuba); habillo (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela); havilla (Puerto Rico); havillo (Costa Rica); jabilla (Dominican Republic); jabillo (Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela); jarilla (Dominican Republic); javilla (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico); javillo (Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama); milpesos (Colombia); molicrillo; nune, nuno (Panama); ochoho, ochohó (Bolivia); planta del diablo (Central America); salvadera (Cuba); seda blanca (Dominican Republic); seda blanco; tabilla (Dominican Republic); tronador (Colombia, Honduras, Panama)
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acacu, (Brazil); açacu (Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago); areeiro (Brazil); asniakara; assaco, assacu, assacú, assacuzeiro, (Brazil); assen (portuguese, Brazil); belshur (bribri); bwa djab, bwis sab (creole, Haiti); camana (campa asháninca, Peru); catahua, catauá; catáuá, coquillo macho (Brazil); hura (Trinidad and Tobago); igún, jabillo; javillo, nune, nuno (Brazil); pèt djab (creole, Haiti); possentrie, possum (Suriname); possum wood (Trinidad and Tobago); possum-wood (USA); rabi, sabliye (creole, Haiti); tsu-krá (boruca); ussacu (Brazil); vi tirub (terraba)
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