Amaryllis belladonna information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Amaryllis belladonna?

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Here is some basic information about Amaryllis belladonna and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Amaryllis belladonna.

 

Amaryllis belladonna basic info
Scientific Name: Amaryllis belladonna L..
Family: Amaranthaceae.
Genus: Amaryllis.
Common names in English: Easter-lily, Jersey-lily.
Description: Amaryllis belladonna, (Jersey lily, belladonna-lily, naked-lady-lily, March lily) is a plant species native to Cape Province in South Africa but widely cultivated as a very popular ornamental. It is reportedly naturalized in many places: Corsica, Portugal, the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Zaire, Ascension Island, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Chile, California, Texas, Louisiana, and the Juan Fernֳ¡ndez Islands. – for more info about Amaryllis belladonna See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Amaryllis belladonna
*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

 

Amaryllis belladonna in other websites
Amaryllis belladonna 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 Amaryllis belladonna – See link.
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