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Plant List only for person: Carrías, Carlos: 39 entries, updated 2010-07-02 01:19:28 GMT

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Family	Scientific name	Habitat	Uses	Origin	Local Name
					English	Spanish	Mayan	Creole

FABACEAE: Mimosoideae	Acacia cornigera	shrub, tree	Med, Food	N	bullhorn acacia, ant thorn	pico de gurrion, cuerno de vaca	liscanal, zubin, huascanal	black cockspur
RUBIACEAE	Alseis yucatanensis	tree	Cnst	N	wild mammee, wild mamey	tabaquillo, mammee silvestre	cacao-che, ison, zon, haas'che, ts'om
BROMELIACEAE	Ananas comosus	shrub, tree	Food	I	pineapple	piÒa
ARECACEAE	ARECACEAE 3	shrub	Food, Bev, Orn	U	cocó, macal
ARECACEAE	Attalea cohune	palm	Med, Food, Oil, Fuel, Bev, Cnst, Prd	N	cohune	corozo	tutz, manaca	cocando boy, chunciey
BURSERACEAE	Bursera simaruba	tree	Med, Bev, Csnt, Prd, Fuel, Ritl, Orn, Pois	N	gumbolimbo, birch, red gumbolimbo, white gumbolim	gumbolimbo blanco, indio desnudo, indio peludo, pa	ca-c-ch, ca-cah, cha-c, chacah, cha-ca, cha-cah, h	tourist tree
ARECACEAE	Crysophila stauracantha	palm, spiny	Cnst, Med, Prd	N	silver thatch	escoba	kuun, akuum, mis	give-and-take
CUCURBITACEAE	Cucurbita pepo	cultivated vine	Food	N	squash, pumpkin	ayote
DIOSCOREACEAE	Dioscorea bartlettii	vine	Food, Med, Dye, Pois	N	red china root, red cocolmecca, white cocolmecca,	cocolmeca blanca, cocolmeca roja, ogaje	ya-ya-chi
VERBENACEAE	Lippia myriocephala	shrub, tree	Prd, Ritl, Med, Fumt, Cnst	U	maja rhacco	baston de vieja	sacuche, sa-ku-che, sa-ku-ch, sakuche
FABACEAE: Papilionoideae	Lonchocarpus castilloi	tree	Cnst, Med	N	black cabbage bark, cabbage bark		manchich
FABACEAE: Papilionoideae	Lonchocarpus sp.	tree	Cnst, Fuel	N	cabbage bark, dogwood, turtle-bone
ANACARDIACEAE	Mangifera indica	tree	Food, Med, Bev, Pois, Prd	I	mango
SAPOTACEAE	Manilkara zapota	tree	Food, Gum, Med, Ltx, Cnst	N	red sapodilla, sapodilla	chico zapote, sapote, zapote, zapotillo, zapote b	ya	chicle, chicle tree
ANACARDIACEAE	Metopium brownei	shrub or tree with irritating sap	Prd, Pois, Cnst, Med, Forg	N	black poison wood, Honduras walnut	chechem negro	chechem, che-chen	black ponwood
NEW PLANT 22	NEW PLANT 22	tree			pegaropa tree
NEW PLANT 24	NEW PLANT 24	tree				siquia, ciquiya
PASSIFLORACEAE	Passiflora mayarum	vine	Food, Bev	N	wild passion fruit	granadillo
LAURACEAE	Persea americana	tree	Med, Food, Prd, Pois, Dye, Bev, Oil	N	avocado	aguacate, aguacote	on	butter-pear, pear
MYRTACEAE	Pimenta dioica	tree	Med, Food, Bev, Spc, Oil	N	allspice	pimienta, pimienta gorda, pimenta, pimenta gorda	naba-cuc
FABACEAE: Papilionoideae	Piscidia piscipula	tree, shrub	Med, Prd, Cnst, Fuel, Pois	N	dogwood, white wormwood, may bush	habim, jabin, palo de gusano	tiaxib
SAPOTACEAE	Pouteria campechiana	tree	Food, Prd, Med, Forg, Ltx	N	mammee cirila	sapotillo rojo	canistel, canizté, zac-xa-nal
BURSERACEAE	Protium copal	tree	Resn, Ritl, Med, Pois, Orn, Prd	N	copal		copal che, pom, pomte
MORACEAE	Pseudolmedia sp.	tree	Food, Forg , Med, Bev, Cnst	N	cherry		manax
FAGACEAE	Quercus oleoides	tree	Cnst, Prd, Med, Resn	N	cedar, red cedar, spanish cedar	cedro, cedro rojo, cidra
ARECACEAE	Sabal mauritiiformis (morrisiana)	palm	Cnst, Food	N	bay leaf, sabal, bay leaf palm, bayleaf palm	botan, guano, guanu	sha-an
MALVACEAE	Sida acuta	shrub, subshrub	Med, Ritl, Fibr, Prd, Fumt	N	broomweed	escoba, escobilla, malva	chichibe, mes-be'l	wire weed
RUBIACEAE	Simira salvadorensis	tree	Prd, Cnst, Fuel	N	red-wood, high ridge redwood	palo colorado, puntero	sac te m'ooch	john crow redwood
ANACARDIACEAE	Spondias radlkoferi	tree	Med, Cnst, Food	N	hogplum, wild plum	ciruela amarilla, jobo, jocote jobo	rum-p'ok, kinim, kanabal, puk, hu-hu
LOGANIACEAE	Strychnos brachistantha(panamensis?)	liana, shrub, often armed	Med, Food	N		chicoloro
MELIACEAE	Swietenia macrophylla	tree	Cnst, Med, Prd	N	broken ridge mahogany, mahogany	caoba	chacaltÈ, punab, sutz'uch
BIGNONIACEAE	Tabebuia rosea	tree	Cnst, Med	N	mayflower, may bush	maculiz	hokab, shna'-corts
APOCYNACEAE	Tabernaemontana alba	shrub, tree	Med, Prd, Gum	N		cojeton, cojon de perro, cojoton, huevo de chucho	chakilikin, ton-cha, ton-chi, ton-samin, ton-sami	dog balls
SAPINDACEAE	Talisia oliviformis	tree	Prd, Forg, Food	N	kinep	guaya	wayah, uayum	kinep
VERBENACEAE	Vitex gaumeri	tree	Prd, Med, Fuel, Forg, Cnst	N	blue blossom, fiddlewood, monkey fiddle, dogwood	flor azul, arbol murcielago	yaxnik, sak-u-sol, yax nik ux pe	walking lady
VITACEAE	Vitis tiliifolia	liana	Food, Med, Prd, Bev	N	water vine, wild grape, wild grape vine	bejuco de uva, bejuco de agua	ha-ix-ak, su-sË	water tie-tie, water-wise
AGAVACEAE	Yucca guatemalensis	shrub, tree	Orn, Food, Med	N	yucca	pasqui
POACEAE/GRAMINAE	Zea mays	grass	Food, Forg, Bev, Med	N	corn, green corn (when young/fresh), dry corn	maiz, maiz verde/fresco (when young/fresh), maiz s
FLACOURTIACEAE	Zuelania guidonia	shrub, tree	Fuel, Med, Food, Forg, Resn, Prd, Cnst	N	drunken bayman wood, water wood, umbrella	paragua, moroco	chu-ya-ak, tamay, tamai

Key to plant origins: N - Native, I - Introduced, n - Naturalized, U - unknown, E - Endemic, * - Native/Introduced, ^ - Unknown/Naturalized.

Pictures come from our own archives as well as the following sources:
Atran, S., X. Lois, and E. U. Ek. 2004 Plants of the Peten Itza Maya. Vol 38. Ann Arbor: Regents of the University of Michigan.
www.nybg.org/bsci/belize
hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/list_all_families.html
www.rain-tree.com/Plant-Images
www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery/gallery_query.htm - Digital Flora of Texas (DFT)