OMBU
phitolacca dioica .
OMBU
phitolacca dioica .
Names:
"umbú"; "dwelt lawén" (default choice) in
tongue
- araucano pampa, "calamaic", "kalmáik", "guatrá" in Toba, "jakalamáik" of the Toba
language
Vilela, "belombra".
Spain:
"Umbu", "beautiful - shade, " ceboleiro " (by smell like
onion
that emerges when the cattle trampled)
Brazil
: "Beautiful Shadow, " according to Bailey.
Geographical distribution and habitat:
It is located in southern
Brazil
, Paraguay, Uruguay and
Argentina
(Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Rios,
Chaco
, Formosa, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires) grows in cutting and quebrachales of
Chaco
and Mesopotamia, xerophytic forests in the river Paraná and platense.
Brief description of the plant:
Tree dioecious 8 - 10 (18) m tall with trunk that becomes very thick and very commonly hollow with thick crust and spongy. Sheets outdated, broadly elliptical, plus or minus 12 cm. long and 6 - 8 cm. wide, glabrous, whole, with rounded base and acute apex. White flowers arranged in clusters of about 10 cm pendulums. long. Fruits,
berries
depressed, lobed, with yellowish - green carpels 7 - 10. Black seeds, striated. Flowers in November, the men's feet before the feminine.
Uses and part used:
The leaves are used as an emetic,
purgative
, dramatic, febrífugo; antiseptic, astringent and
vulnerary
for external use. The campaign produced soaps with ash. It is an ornamental plant and shade. In
Brazil
the use against foot and mouth
disease
in cattle.
Isolated chemical components:
In
h
: quercetin, ombuína.
cr:
fitolaccina.
fr:
sucrose, acid fitoláctico.
or:
routine,
Ombu
, 28, 30 - dicarboxioleano.
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