Wild Flowering Plants
| Rutaceae family Zanthoxylum spinifex (Jacquin) de Candolle, Prodr. 1: 728. 1824. Bas.: Fagara spinifex Jacquin (1809). Bwa bandé Indigenous quite rare tree of deciduous seasonal forest, especially coastal. Anguilla, St. Barthélemy, Barbuda, Antigua, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados, Greater Antilles, South America. Thin whitish twigs with the spines cut off are used as a bwa bandé (male sexual stimulant), often placed in strong white rum. Used mostly in the dry north and south of the island. See also Chiococca alba and Chione venosa. |
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