Tabebuia serratifolia
(Vahl) G. Nicholson
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Trunk, Medicine?
For many Tabebuia a drink as medicine was made from the wood or bark.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant.
Bolivia, South America,
How to Identify
A tropical tree in the Bignoniaceae family. The trunk and bark have been traditionally used to prepare medicinal drinks.
Medicinal Uses
A drink made from the wood or bark was traditionally used as medicine.
Names & Synonyms
Tajibo
References (1)
- Zambrana, P, et al, 2017, Traditional knowledge hiding in plain sight – twenty-first century ethnobotany of the Chácobo in Beni, Bolivia. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2017) 13:57
