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Plant List only for person: Zúniga, Orlando: 55 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
EUPHORBIACEAE	Acalypha arvensis	herb	Med	N	cancer herb, cat tail	hierba de cancer, cordiemiento
RUBIACEAE	Alseis yucatanensis	tree	Cnst	N	wild mammee, wild mamey	tabaquillo, mammee silvestre	cacao-che, ison, zon, haas'che, ts'om
ANNONACEAE	Annona reticulata	tree	Med, Prd, Cnst, Fibr, Food, Dye, Pois, Tan	N	custard apple, annona, wild custard apple	anona blanca, annona colorado, annona del monte	oop, tsulipox
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
FABACEAE: Mimosoideae	Balizia leucocalyx	tree	Med, Cnst, Prd, Tan	N	wild tamarind	hesmo, jesmo
MORACEAE	Brosimum alicastrum	tree	Food, Forg, Med, Cnst	N	breadnut, female ramon	capomo, copomo, macica, ramón, ramón blanco, ramón	masicaran, ox, ujushte
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
CLUSIACEAE	Calophyllum brasiliense	tree	Cnst, Med, Ltx	I	santa maria	pito sico
SOLANACEAE	Capsicum chinense	herb	Spc	I	habanero pepper, wild chili	chile, habanero, chile del monte
CARICACEAE	Carica papaya	tree	Med, Food, Prd, Bev, Pois	I	papaya, wild papaya, manbird papaya		put	papaw
CARICACEAE	Carica pubescens	tree	Food	I	mountain papaya
CECROPIACEAE	Cecropia peltata	tree	Med, Prd, Fumt, Food	N	trumpet tree	guarumo	a'kl, ixcoch, cho-otz
ASTERACEAE	Chromolaena odorata	shrub, tree	Med	N	jack-in-the-bush		hatz, yaxhatz
UNKNOWNS 45	Cissampelos tropaeolifolia (MENISPERMACEAE)? (hoja	vine	med		pregant woman's herb	hoja de preniada, yerba de la preniada
ARECACEAE	Cocos nucifera	palm	Food, Oil, Prd, Med, Bev, Fibr	U	coconut	coco, cocotera
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
FABACEAE: Caesalpinioideae	Desmodium adscendens	tree	Med	I	strongback	pega ropa, mosote		sticky sticky bur bur
CONVOLVULACEAE	Ipomoea batatas	vine	Food	N	sweet potato, cultivated yam	batatas, camote
ASTERACEAE	Koanophyllon albicaule	shrub, tree	Med, Prd	N	black cordoncillo, black piper	cordoncillo negro	soscha, xolexnuc	old woman's walking stick
FABACEAE: Papilionoideae	Lonchocarpus castilloi	tree	Cnst, Med	N	black cabbage bark, cabbage bark		manchich
FABACEAE: Mimosoideae	Lysiloma auritum	tree	Med	N	bastard mahogany	tamborcillo, palo de sangre	tsu
EUPHORBIACEAE	Manihot esculenta	subshrub	Food, Orn, Med, Pois, Prd, Spc, Ltx	I	cassava, white cassava		tsin
CUCURBITACEAE	Melothria pendula	vine	Med, Forg	N	watermelon rat	melon de raton
CUCURBITACEAE	Momordica charantia	vine	Food, Med, Forg, Orn, Pois	I	balsam pear	sorosí		sorosee
NEW PLANT 37	NEW PLANT 37				blackberry, blueberry?
NEW PLANT 38	NEW PLANT 38	shrub				lantana, cinco negritos
NEW PLANT 39	NEW PLANT 39	vine				lebiza
NEW PLANT 41	NEW PLANT 41	shrub				maravilla del monte
NEW PLANT 42	NEW PLANT 42	tree				palo de marimba	iximche'
PASSIFLORACEAE	Passiflora mayarum	vine	Food, Bev	N	wild passion fruit	granadillo
MYRTACEAE	Pimenta dioica	tree	Med, Food, Bev, Spc, Oil	N	allspice	pimienta, pimienta gorda, pimenta, pimenta gorda	naba-cuc
PIPERACEAE	Piper jacquemontianum	shrub, tree		U	spanish elder	cordoncillo
PIPERACEAE	Piper marginatum	herb		N	spanish elder	cordoncillo
FABACEAE: Papilionoideae	Piscidia piscipula	tree, shrub	Med, Prd, Cnst, Fuel, Pois	N	dogwood, white wormwood, may bush	habim, jabin, palo de gusano	tiaxib
NYCTAGINACEAE	Pisonia proctorii	liana, endemic	Med	E	tiger nail	uña de gato
PORTULACACEAE	Portulaca oleracea	herb, fleshy	Food, Med, Forg	U	purslane	berdolaga, verdo laga
SAPOTACEAE	Pouteria campechiana	tree	Food, Prd, Med, Forg, Ltx	N	mammee cirila	sapotillo rojo	canistel, canizté, zac-xa-nal
UNKNOWNS 25	Psilocybe spp.?	fungus	Food, Med		mushroom-various
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
POLYGALACEAE	Securidaca sylvestris	liana	Orn, Pois, Med	U	man vine	behuco de hombre, behuco verde, ginuello	c'halam-pim
SOLANACEAE	Solanum torvum	shrub	Food, Med	N	nightshade	susumba, hoja del plato	pach'l, p'al
APOCYNACEAE	Stemmadenia donnell-smithii	shrub, tree	Med, Prd, Pois	N	horse tone, horse's balls	cojotón, cojón de caballo, Huevo de caballo, chakl
MELIACEAE	Swietenia macrophylla	tree	Cnst, Med, Prd	N	broken ridge mahogany, mahogany	caoba	chacaltÈ, punab, sutz'uch
COMMELINACEAE	Tradescantia spathaceae	herb	Med, Orn, Pois, Prd, Dye	N	Moses in the boat	maguey sylvestre	chatsum
UNKNOWNS 14	UNKNOWNS 14	tree	Fuel		skunk tree, wild rue	ruda de monte	priquiyala
UNKNOWNS 17	UNKNOWNS 17	tree	Cnst		purple heart
UNKNOWNS 32	UNKNOWNS 32	shrub	Orn, Med		coral grass
UNKNOWNS 46	UNKNOWNS 46	tree			lice tree
URTICACEAE	Urera baccifera	shrub	Med, Prd	N	cow-itch	ortiga	laal
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
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

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)