Soap-bush: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Soap-bush in English is the name of a plant defined with Clidemia hirta in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Staphidium elegans (Aubl.) Naudin (among others).
2) Soap-bush is also identified with Gouania polygama It has the synonym Gouania pubescens Lam. ex Poir. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Symbolae Antillarum (Urban) (1910)
· Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. (1956)
· Enumeratio Systematica Plantarum (1760)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Flora of the British West Indian Islands (1860)
· Fieldiana, Botany (1949)
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Partial matches: Soap.
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