Wild Flowering Plants
| Rhamnaceae family Gouania lupuloides (Linnaeus) Urban, Symb. Antill. 4(3): 378. 1910. Bas.: Banisteria lupuloides Linnaeus (1753). Lyenn savon Indigenous quite common woody vine of semi-evergreen seasonal forest and moist semi-open areas. St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Barbuda, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Les Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, Trinidad, Tobago, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. As a dentifrice, the frayed end of a six-inch section of the stem is rubbed against the teeth making a foaming cleanser. |
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