Calophyllum
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 flower of Alexandrian Laurel (Calophyllum inophyllum) | ||||||||||||||||
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Calophyllum ("beautiful leaf", from Greek kalos, "beautiful", and phullon, "leaf") is a plant genus of around 180-200 species of tropical evergreen trees in the family Clusiaceae. Its members are native to Australasia, Madagascar, Eastern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands, the West Indies and Latin America. The common names, as well as commercial names, for these trees are:
- teitai (in Kiribati),
- Feta'u (in Tonga),[1]
- Bintangor tree (in Malaysia) and
- Poon tree (in India),
- Guanandi, Jacareuba or Santa Maria (in Latin America).
For medicinal (folk medicine and ethnopharmacology) uses of leaves, oil from nuts and crost balsam,[clarification needed] for HIV and AIDS, see calanolide A and calanolide B,[2] Jacareubin,[3] Tamanu oil,[4] and Calophyllic acid.[5] For medicinal use from their resin, see tacamahac.
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