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Botanical Name |
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Muntingia calabura L. |
English
Name |
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Capulin, Jamaica cherry, Jam tree, Strawberry tree |
Family |
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Muntingiaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A small evergreen tree, 3—12 m tall, growing and flowering continuously on fan-like branches; mainline branches becoming erect after leaf fall and so in turn contributing to the formation of the trunk; branches horizontal, pendent towards the tip, soft-hairy. Leaves simple, ovate-lanceolate, 4—14 cm x 1—4 cm, with prominent asymmetry of the leaf blade base; leaf margin serrate, lower leaf surface greyish pubescent. Flowers in 1—3(—5)-flowered supra-axillary fascicles, hermaphrodite, pentamerous with white petals. Fruit a dull-red berry, 15 mm in diameter, with several thousand tiny seeds in the soft pulp. |
| Herb Effects |
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Antiseptic (flowers); antispasmodic (infusion of flowers). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, niacin, riboflavin and thiamin (fruit) |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Ascorbic acid |
Not Available |
2-(1,2-dihydroxyethy
l)-4,5-dihydroxy-fur
an-3-one |
C6H8O6 |
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| Beta-carotene |
Not Available |
3,7,12,16-tetramethy
l-1,18-bis(2,6,6-tri
methyl-1-cyclohexeny
l)-octadec
a-1,3,5,
7,9,11,13,15,17-nona
ene |
C40H56 |
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| Niacin |
99148-57-9 |
Pyridine-3-carboxyli
c acid |
C6H5NO2 |
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| Riboflavin |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C17H21N4O9P |
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| Thiamin |
59-43-8 |
2-[3-[(4-amino-2-met
hyl-pyrimidin-5-yl)m
ethyl]-4-methyl-1-th
ia-3-azoni
acyclope
nta-2,4-dien-5-yl]et
hanol |
C12H17N4OS+ |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Used against headaches and colds (infusion of flowers) |
Dealers
Products
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Health Remedies 
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