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Category: Flowering Tropical TreesScientific name: Senegalia senegal
Family: Fabaceae
Origin: Africa and India
Medicinal use:Acacia trees protect local biodiversity: in addition to providing fodder for livestock, acacia trees become a genuine home for various species of birds. The root system of acacias can deepen to the water table while preventing soil degradation. The acacia tree is among the most promising resources in Africa. It produces the gum that bears its name: senegal gum, which we often find in products we use in our daily lives.
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Pink shower tree
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Category: Flowering Tropical TreesScientific name: Cassia grandis
Family: Fabaceae
Origin: Mexico and Tropical America
Medicinal use: It is a large, flaky tree, with dark green foliage and very showy pink flowers in clusters. The fruit is a cylindrical thing more than half a rod long, and it is filled with crushed seeds placed one on top of the other like a pile of coins. Decoction of leaves, fruit and bark is used orally to treat anemia, nosebleeds, diseases of the liver, urinary tract infections, hysteria, cold and cough.
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Flame Tree
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SKU: 1254 Category: Flowering Tropical TreesScientific name: Delonix regia
Family: Fabaceae
Origin: Africa
Medicinal use: It is one of the most colorful trees in the world for its red, orange and lilac flowers, and for its bright green foliage it can reach up to 12 m. Caribbean natives use the ripe pods with whole seeds as percussion instruments known as shak-shak or maracas. They are also used as livestock feed in some parts of Colombia. In addition to its ornamental use in streets and public spaces, it is used as a shade tree because its foliage is widely spread.
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Category: Flowering Tropical TreesScientific name: Muntingia calabura
Family: Muntingiaceae
Origin: Mexico and Tropical America
Medicinal use: It belongs to the cherry family and since pre-Hispanic times it has been consumed in different regions of Mexico. It is mainly eaten raw or in jam, but there are also recipes that include it, such as capulines tamales, called “capultamal” originating in the State of Mexico. It was an important food for the native peoples, and for the Spanish conquerors.
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