Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Antidesma bunius?
If you know websites containing any information about Antidesma bunius please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Antidesma bunius and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Antidesma bunius.
Antidesma bunius basic info
Scientific Name: Antidesma bunius (L.) Spreng..
Family: Phyllanthaceae.
Genus: Antidesma.
Common names in English: bignay China-laurel, Chinese-laurel, currant-tree, Herbert River-cherry, Queensland-cherry, salamander-tree, wild cherry.
For common names of Antidesma bunius in different languages – See link
Description: Antidesma bunius is a species of fruit tree in the Phyllanthaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia and northern Australia. Its common Philippine name and other names include bignay, This is a variable plant which may be short and shrubby or tall and erect, approaching 30 metres in height. It has large oval shaped leathery evergreen leaves up to about 20 cm long and seven wide. They are attached to the twigs of the tree with short petioles, creating a dense canopy. – for more info about Antidesma bunius See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Antidesma bunius
- Poison
*The information in this list is based on the ethnobotanical data in Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases.
Dr. Duke does not recommend using this information for self diagnosis or self medication. – See link
Antidesma bunius in other websites
Antidesma bunius common names, economics importance, distributional range and more in the USDA GRIN website – See link.
Search PubMed (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) for academic researches with the search term Antidesma bunius – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Antidesma bunius – See link.