Cuphea ignea information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Cuphea ignea?

If you know websites containing any information about Cuphea ignea please link to them.

Answer

I didn’t find in Dr. Duke’s database, any information about the uses of Cuphea ignea
Here is some basic information about Cuphea ignea.

 

Cuphea ignea basic info
Scientific Name: Cuphea ignea A. DC..
Family: Lythraceae.
Genus: Cuphea.
Common names in English: cigar-flower-plant, firecracker-bush, firecracker-plant, Mexican cigarplant.
Description: Cuphea ignea is a species of flowering plant native to Mexico and the West Indies. Common names: cigar plant, cigar flower, firecracker plant, or Mexican cigar. The flower is said to resemble a lit cigar, hence the name. – for more info about Cuphea ignea See link

 

 

Cuphea ignea in other websites
Cuphea ignea 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 Cuphea ignea – See link.
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