GUACAMAYA (senna alata)

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	GUACAMAYA
	*senna alata*

Name
GUACAMAYA

Scientific Name
senna alata

GUACAMAYA

Description

Shrub of until a meter of stop, with robust branches and the pubescente young foliage. Leaves of 30-100 cm. in length, foliolos of 6-12 pairs, sharp-pediculados-compounds, elliptical, something inequiláteros, pecíolos robust without glands. Yellow, showy flowers in clusters terminal or located in the superior armpits. Straight cases or 4 winged and almost, longitudinally longitudinally dehiscente, multitabicada of 10-15 cm. in length and approximately 1.5 cm. wide, flattened seeds, transversas parallel to the partitions, brown with 5 mm in length.

Origin

Tropical America, introduced in tropical of the Old World.

Location

Apparently nonlocatable of natural form, widely cultivated like ornamental in parks, avenues and gardens of the city and the field.

Other attributed properties

Herpes (micosis) and other diseases of the skin. They kill old, diurética, sudorífica and laxative.

Composition

Mucílago, amálico acid, acid tartárico, aribarbarina or crisofánico acid (fúngico)

Bibliographical references

Medicinal, aromatic or poisonous Roig, J. T. Plantas of Cuba. Edit. Science and Technique, Havana, 1988, pag 464-466.

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