Tabebuia serratifolia
(Vahl) G. Nicholson
Bignoniaceae Edible: Trunk, Medicine?
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Description
A tropical tree in the Bignoniaceae family. The trunk and bark have been traditionally used to prepare medicinal drinks.
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Traditional Uses
For many Tabebuia a drink as medicine was made from the wood or bark.
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Medicinal Uses
A drink made from the wood or bark was traditionally used as medicine.
Distribution
It is a tropical plant.
Where It Grows
Bolivia, South America,
Also Known As
Tajibo
References (1)
- Zambrana, P, et al, 2017, Traditional knowledge hiding in plain sight – twenty-first century ethnobotany of the Chácobo in Beni, Bolivia. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2017) 13:57
