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Cantutas in Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, Peru.. Cantua buxifolia, (/ ˈ k æ n tj u ə b ʌ k s ɪ ˈ f oʊ l i ə /, Hispanicized spellings cantuta, cantu), known as qantu, qantus or qantuta (Quechua, [1]) is a flowering plant found in the high valleys of the Yungas of the Andes mountains in western South America.
The specific and common names derive from ajipa / asipa, the Quechua name for the plant, via Spanish. [196] Pampadromaeus † sauropodomorph: Quechua: From pampa ("plain") and Greek dromaeus ("runner") [197] Pampas cat (Leopardus pajeros) big cat: Quechua: From pampa ("plain"). The species name, pajeros is from "a native name" for the cat. [198]
This category includes the endemic and native plants of Spain. According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, this excludes the Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, and the Spanish North African Territories, but includes Andorra and Gibraltar
Caesalpinia monensis Britton (Mona Is.); Calliandra haematomma var. locoensis (R.G.García & Kolterman) Barneby (southwestern Puerto Rico); Chamaecrista glandulosa var. mirabilis (Pollard) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
The Nahuatl word ololiuhqui means "round thing", and refers to the small, brown, oval seeds of the morning glory, [5] not the plant itself, which is called coaxihuitl (“snake-plant") in Nahuatl, and hiedra, bejuco or quiebraplatos in the Spanish language. The seeds, in Spanish, are sometimes called semilla de la Virgen (seeds of the Virgin Mary).
English common names include Spanish cherry, [2] medlar, [2] and bullet wood. [3] Its timber is valuable, the fruit is edible, and it is used in traditional medicine. As the trees give thick shade and flowers emit fragrance, it is a prized collection of gardens. [ 4 ]
However, the plant has been shown to exhibit strong introgression with Inga ingoides in species contact areas. This could allow for selection of hybrids via interspecific hybridization to further increase yield and flood tolerance of the crop. [24] Medicinal uses. Inga edulis is widely used in native South American folk medicine.
Castilleja, commonly known as paintbrush, Indian paintbrush, or prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial mostly herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.