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Latin name	Conzattia multiflora (B.L.Rob.) Standl.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC North America (Mexico: Michoacán to Oaxaca)
North America distribution zone	SC
Height	M
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Synonym	Caesalpinia multiflora B.L.Rob. Conzattia arborea Rose
English name	manyflower conzattia
French name	conzattie multiflore
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Latin name	Copaifera L.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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Synonym	Copaiba Adans. Copaiva Jacq.
English name	copaltree
French name	copayer
Spanish name	cabimo (Panama)
Other name	Kopaivabaum (german); copaifera (italian)
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Latin name	Copaifera aromatica Dwyer
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua to Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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Ecology
Use	dr (lever infection, stomachache, tetanus) ti (agricultural tools, arms tools, cabinet working, general carpentry, interior fence stake)
Synonym	Copaifera chiriquensis Pittier
English name	fragrant copaltree
French name	copayer odorant
Spanish name	camibar (Costa Rica, Nicaragua); camíbar (Costa Rica)
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Latin name	Copaifera camibar Poveda, N.Zamora & P.E.Sánchez
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica) NC South America (Venezuela: Amazonas)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
Use	dr (oil used to heal wounds) ex ma (industrial resin, pealed bark used as rope or traps) ti (building)
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English name	camibar copaltree
French name	copayer camibar
Spanish name	aceite, cabima (Venezuela); camibar (Costa Rica); palo de aceite (Venezuela)
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Latin name	Copaifera officinalis (Jacq.) L.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama, West Indies) N M South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil: Bahia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage	E
Ecology
Use	dr (perfume for soap, therapeutic substance) ma (lake) pl
Synonym	Copaiba officinalis Adans. Copaifera jacquinii Desf. Copaiva officinalis Jacq.
English name	copaiba copaltree; balsam (Trinidad and Tobago); balsam of copaiba, copaiba balsam, copal tree
French name	copayer commun; arbre à copal, copalier, copayer
Spanish name	aceite, aceitillo (Venezuela); amacey (Dominican Republic); copaiba (Peru, Venezuela); cupai (Argentina); currucay (Venezuela); lengua de fraile (Argentina)
Other name	albero del copale (italian); Copaibobalsam (german); copaifera officinale (italian); Kopaivabaum (german)
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Latin name	Copaifera panamensis (Britton) Standl.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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Ecology
Use	dr (resin to treat bug bites) ma (seeds used to make odoriferous necklace)
Synonym	Copaiva panamensis Britton
English name	Panama copaltree
French name	copayer du Panama
Spanish name	cabimo (Panama); canime (Colombia)
Other name	musgua, muskua (kuna, Panama)
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Latin name	Copernicia Mart. ex Endl.
Family	Palmae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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English name	copernicia
French name	copernicie
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Other name	Kopernicie (german); copernicia (italian)
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Latin name	Copernicia baileyana Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
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English name	Bailey copernicia
French name	copernicie de Bailey
Spanish name	yarey hembra (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia brittonorum Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	Britton copernicia
French name	copernicie de Britton
Spanish name	jata de costa, yarey de costa (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia cowellii Britton & P.Wilson
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
Foliage	D
Ecology	hyg?
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English name	Cowell copernicia
French name	copernicie de Cowell
Spanish name	jata enana (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia curbeloi Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	Cuberlo copernicia
French name	copernicie de Cuberlo
Spanish name	yarey macho (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia curtisii Becc.
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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Synonym	Copernicia pauciflora Burret
English name	Curtis copernicia
French name	copernicie de Curtis
Spanish name	guano espinoso (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia fallaensis Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Copernicia fallaense Léon
English name	Falla copernicia
French name	copernicie de Falla
Spanish name	yarey (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia gigas Ekman ex Burret
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
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Synonym	Copernicia excelsa Léon
English name	giant copernicia
French name	copernicie géante
Spanish name	barrigón, hediondo (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia glabrescens H.Wendl. ex Becc.
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
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English name	glabrescent copernicia
French name	copernicie glabrescente
Spanish name	guano blanco (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia hospita Mart.
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Ecology	hyg
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English name	hospita copernicia
French name	copernicie hospita
Spanish name	guano hediondo (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia humicola Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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English name	humicolous copernicia
French name	copernicie humicole
Spanish name	yarey (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia longiglossa Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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English name	longtongue copernicia
French name	copernicie à longue langue
Spanish name	jata (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia macroglossa H.Wendl. ex Becc.
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
Foliage	D
Ecology	hyg
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Synonym	Copernicia torreana Léon
English name	bigtongue copernicia
French name	copernicie à grande langue
Spanish name	jata de guanabacoa (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia molineti Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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English name	Molinet copernicia
French name	copernicie de Molinet
Spanish name	yarey (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia oxycalyx Burret
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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Synonym	Copernicia clarkii Léon
English name	sharpcalyx copernicia
French name	copernicie à calice pointu
Spanish name	jata macho (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia rigida Britton & P.Wilson
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
Foliage	D
Ecology	hyg?
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English name	rigid copernicia
French name	copernicie rigide
Spanish name	jata, jata guatacuda (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia roigii Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	Roig copernicia
French name	copernicie de Roig
Spanish name	yarey de sabana (Cuba)
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Latin name	Copernicia yarey Burret
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
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English name	yarey copernicia
French name	copernicie yarey
Spanish name	yarey hediondo (Cuba)
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Latin name	Cordia L.
Family	Boraginaceae
Distribution
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Synonym	Cordia Rchb. Sebesten Adans. Sebestena Boehm. Sebestena Gaertn.
English name	cordia; bocote
French name	cordia; bois à baguettes, bois de râpe, bois de rose; bois marguerite (French Guiana); bois negre (Trinidad); montjoli, sébestenier, sébestier
Spanish name	ateje amarillo, ateje macho (Cuba); bocote; muñeco (Panama); nigüito, paico
Other name	babosa branca, barba de boi (Brazil); bocote; bwa chik, bwa denn, bwa soumi, flè dan (creole, Haiti); mata fome (Brazil); ti soley (creole, Haiti)
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Latin name	Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken
Family	Boraginaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Panama, West Indies) South America (tropics) int Africa
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage	D[E]
Ecology	hel [sci] hyg->[xer] calc [acid]->basi
Use	dr (flower decoction taken orally for throat infection, leaves decoction compress is applied to sores, leaves infusion taken orally for cough and chest cold, seeds and leaves are used in home medicines, mostly for ailments related to throat infections and chest cold) fd (fruits) fr (flowers for bees, leaves, nectar, pods, seeds) fw (ethanol, fuel) pl (ornamental, reforestation, wood production) pp (potential, very good for the production of paper pulp) sa (agricultural shade, agroforestry shade tree especially in coffee-growing regions, shade in cacao, other crops and for farm animals) ti (barrel hoops, beams, boat, boat cover, bridge decking, bridges, cabinet work, wood carving, climbing stakes for crops, cooperage, crossbeams, doors, fence posts, fine carpentry, flooring, furniture, general carpentry, general construction, girders, houses, interior boat work, interior trim, lining of furniture, motorcar bodies, mulch, musical instruments, oars, paneling, piling, platforms and banisters for cars, plywood, plywood corestock, rafters, railroad ties, sawn timber, ships decking and planking, tablet, tool handles, turned work, veneer, windows)
Synonym	Cerdana alliodora Ruiz & Pav. Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Cham. ex DC. Cordia gerascanthus Griseb. Cordia gerascanthus Jacq. non L. Cordia gerascanthus var. subcanescens Eggers Cordia trichotoma (Vell.) Arráb. Gerascanthus alliodorus (Ruiz & Pav.) Borhidi Lithiocardium alliodorum Kuntze
English name	onion cordia; American light cordia; bohun (Belize, UK); brown silverballi (Guyana); cyp (Trinidad); cypress (Tobago); Ecuador laurel, laurel; laurel blanco (Belize, UK); laurel cappriet; panchallon (Jamaica); salaam, salmwood (Belize, UK); satin wood (Trinidad and Tobago); silverballi (Guyana); Spanish elm (Jamaica, Puerto Rico); Spanish-elm (Jamaica); spruce (Antigua)
French name	cordia arbre-à-l'ail; arbre-à-l'ail; bois de Rhodes (Guadeloupe); bois de rose (Guadeloupe, Haiti); bois soumis, bois-chypre, chêne caparo, chêne franc, chêne noir p.p. (Haiti); chypre, cordie arbre-à-l'ail, cordie faux-bois-de-rose; cypre (Trinidad and Tobago); laurier cypre (Dominican Republic)
Spanish name	aguardientillo (Mexico); ajo (Bolivia); ajo ajo (Bolivia, Peru); ajo sacha (Peru); ajo-ajo; ajosquiro (Peru); amapa prieta, anacahuite del Istmo (Mexico); añalo caspi (Peru); añayo caspi; arbol del ajo (Peru); blanco; bojon (Guatemala); bojón (Guatemala, Mexico); bojón prieto (Mexico); canalete, canalete de humo, canelete prieto (Colombia); capa (Dominican Republic, Panama, Virgin Gorda); capá (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico); capa de olor, capá de olor, capá de sabana, capa prieto (Dominican Republic); capá prieto (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico); cáparo (Dominican Republic); cedrillo, cedrito, cedrito guasimo (Colombia); chullachaqui (Peru); cordia; cueramu (Mexico); guacimilla (Dominican Republic); guasima nogal (Colombia); guasimilla (Bolivia, Dominican Republic); guásimo, guásimo vegetal, guo (Colombia); hormiguero (Mexico); larel, larel blanco (Honduras); laurel (Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama); laurel blanco (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama); laurel de costa (Ecuador); laurel de savana (Honduras); laurel hembra, laurel hormiguero, laurel macho (Nicaragua); laurel negro (Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama); mo, moho, moncora (Colombia); moncoro, mur, murapo, nogal, nogal cafetero, nogal de cafelatés, nogal de cafetal, nogal de cafetales, nogal de cafetero, nogal de capelates (Colombia); pajarito prieto, palo de rosa, palo de viga, palo María (Mexico); pardilla (Venezuela); pardillo (Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela); pardio, pardio negro (Venezuela); pete rebi (Argentina, Paraguay); picana, picana negra (Bolivia); poma rosa (Belize); popocotle (Mexico); prieto (Colombia); prieto de montaña (Colombia, Ecuador); rosadillo (Mexico); sobra, solera, solera moho (Colombia); solería, solerillo, suchicuahua (Mexico); tacuroi (Venezuela); tambor, tambor hormiguero (Mexico); vara de humo (Colombia); varia, varía, varia aguacate, varía aguacate, varia amarilla, varía amarilla, varía amirilla, varia colorada, varía colorada, varia colorado, varia prieta, varía prieta (Cuba)
Other name	abib, alub (huasteco); amarello (Brazil); bohun (maya, Belize); bwa soumi, bwa wòz, chenn fran, chenn kapawo, chenn nwa (creole, Haiti); cypre; driana caspi (quichua); huixte (huasteco); ioianti (campa asháninca, Peru); lauro, louri, louro, louro amarello, louro amarillo (Brazil); polocotle (portuguese?, Brazil?); salaam, suchah (maya, Belize); teijo (portuguese, Brazil); tusa-tioco (mixteco); urazeiro, uruazeiro (Brazil)
Trade name	laurel blanco (USA); satin wood (Trinidad and Tobago)

Latin name	Cordia anisodonta Urb.
Family	Boraginaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Dominican Republic: Barahona and Pedernales, Haiti: Morne Cabaio, La Selle, à Cabrits, Marigot)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	Hispaniola cordia
French name	cordia d'Hispaniola
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Latin name	Cordia anisophylla J.S.Mill.
Family	Boraginaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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English name	unequalleaf cordia
French name	cordia à feuilles inégales
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Latin name	Cordia bicolor A.DC.
Family	Boraginaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Panama, West Indies) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage	SD
Ecology	hyg
Use	fr ti (boxes, furniture, light construction, plywood)
Synonym	Cordia belizensis Lundell Cordia carnosa Rusby Cordia trichostyle Pittier Lithocardium bicolor (A.DC.) Kunth Posoqueria metensis Kunth
English name	bicolor cordia
French name	cordia bicolore
Spanish name	alatrique (Venezuela); bernabé (Costa Rica); caujaro, cautaro (Venezuela); muñeco (Honduras, Nicaragua); pavo (Bolivia); sombra de ternero (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras); sombre de ternero (Honduras)
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Latin name	Cordia boissieri A.DC.
Family	Boraginaceae
Distribution	SC North America (USA: Texas; Mexico: Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
North America distribution zone	SC
Height	S
Foliage	E[D]
Ecology	hel xer calc
Use	pl (ornamental)
Synonym	Lithocardium boissieri Kuntze
English name	anacahuite cordia; anacahuita, anacahuite, anacahuitewood, apacahuite, Mexican-olive, wild-olive
French name	cordia anacahuite; sébestier anacahuite
Spanish name	nacahuita, trompillo (Mexico)
Other name	Anacahuitholz (german)
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