OMBU (phitolacca dioica .)

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	*phitolacca dioica .*

Name
OMBU

Scientific Name
phitolacca dioica .

OMBU

Vulgar names: "umbú"; "moró lawén" (Moor remedy) in language araucano-Pampas; "calamaic", "kalmáik", "guatrá" in tufa; "jakalamáik" of the tufa in language vilela; "belombra"

Spain: "imbú", "bela-sombra", ceboleiro" (by the similar scent to onion that gives off when the cattle the pisotea)

Brazil: "bella sombra", according to Bailey.

· geographic Distribution and habitat: Is it in the south of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and in Argentina (Missions, Currents, Between Rivers, Chaco, Formosa, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires) it grows in you will destroy and quebrachales of Chaco and Mesopotamia, in xerófilos forests of the paranaense and platense shore.

· Brief description of the plant: Dioico tree of 8-10 (-18)m of height, with trunk that gets to be very heavy and very commonly hollow with spongy and heavy crust. Leaves you expire, widely elliptical, of more or less 12 cm. in length by 6-8 cm. wide, glabras, whole, with acute apex and bases cleared. Flowers blanquecinas ready in clusters pendulums of about 10 cm. in length. Fruits, depressed berries, lobuladas, with 7-10 green-yellowish carpelos. Black seeds, fluted. It blooms in November, the masculine feet before the feminine ones.

· Uses and used part: The leaves are used like vomiting, purgativo, drastic, febrífugo; antiseptic, astringent and vulnerario of external use. In the campaign they make soaps with the ash. It is a ornamental plant and of shade. In Brazil they use it against the aftosa fever of the cattle.

· Component isolated chemistries:

In h: quercetina, ombuína.

cr: fitolaccina.

fr: saccharose, fitoláctico acid.

nor: routine, ombuósido; 28, 30-dicarboxioleano.

OMBU

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