Macaw
senna alata
Macaw
senna alata
Description.
Shrub up to one meter high, with sturdy branches and foliage pubescent youth. Leaves of 30 - 100 cm. in length, 6 - 12 pairs of leaflets, cutting - pedi - compounds, elliptical, something inequiláteros, petioles robust without glands.
Yellow
flowers, showy clusters terminals located in the armpit or higher. Pods
straight
or
almost
4 lengthwise and winged lengthwise dehiscent, multitabicada of 10 - 15 cm. long and about 1. 5 cm. wide, flat seeds, transverse parallel to the walls,
brown
with 5 Mm. long.
Source
.
Tropical
America
, introduced in the Old World tropics.
Location.
Apparently not reachable in
a
natural
way, which is widely cultivated as ornamental in parks, avenues and gardens of the city and the countryside.
Other properties attributed.
Herpes
(fungal
infection
) and other skin
diseases
. Matan old, diuretic, and laxative
sudorific
.
Composition.
Mucilage, Amal acid, tartaric acid, or aribarbarina acid crisofánico (fungal)
Bibliographic references.
Roig, J.
T
. Medicinal plants,
aromatic
or poisonous to Cuba. Edit.
Science
and
Technology
, Havana, 1988,
p
. 464 - 466.
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