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Philippine Herbal Encyclopedia

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🌿 Skin

Buringit (Tagbanua) Clausena (English)

Clausena Burm. F.

Small tree Height: about the size of the leg in circumference Leaves: Not provided Flowers: Not provided Fruits: Round g...

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Matang hipon (Filipino), Indian snowberry (English)

Breynia vitis-idaea (Burm.f.) C.E.C.Fisch.

Shrub Height: Not provided Leaves: Not provided Flowers: Red Fruits: Red

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🌿 Respiratory

Unidentified

Ficus ulmifolia Lam.

Tree Height: About 14 ft. Leaves: Not provided Flowers: Not provided Fruits: Not provided

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Balanoy (Filipino), Sweet Basil (English)

Ocimum basilicum L.

Shrub Height: Not provided Leaves: Not provided Flowers: bears flower Fruits: Not provided

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Mayana (Filipino), Coleus (English)

Coleus blumei Benth.

Not provided Height: Not provided Leaves: Not provided Flowers: Not provided Fruits: Not provided

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Unidentified

Dendrolobium quinquepetalum (Blanco) Schindl.

Not provided Height: Not provided Leaves: Not provided Flowers: Not provided Fruits: Not provided

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🌿 Respiratory

Banag (Filipino, Hanunuo Mangyan), Sarsaparilla vine (English)

Smilax bracteata C. Presl

Woody vine Height: Not provided Leaves: Not provided Flowers: Not provided Fruits: Not provided

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Unidentified

Machaerina sp.

Shrub Height: Not provided Leaves: "Alternate, simple, entire, absent or ascending near the base of the stem; blades lin...

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Unidentified

Omalanthus sp.

Shrub Height: Not provided Leaves: Alternate, Glaucous below, Peltate A few older Leaves turning red; Milky Latex presen...

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Unidentified

Ficus sp.

Tree Height: Not provided Leaves: Alternate [rarely opposite, simple, mostly pinnately veined; stipules usually shed and...

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🌿 Respiratory

Cotton (English), Bulak (Filipino)

Gossypium hirsutum L., Gossypium barbadense L.

Shrub Height: Not provided Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, palmately 3–5-lobed, hirsute, blade cordate, as broad as...

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Unidentified

Vaccinium myrtoides (Blume) Miq

Shrub Height: Not provided Leaves: Leaves ovate to elliptic Flowers: Not provided Fruits: Berry globose, 4-5 ㎜ in diame...

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