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Quararibea funebris

Synonyms: Lexarza funebris

Wikipedia Abstract

Quararibea funebris (Flor de cacao, Cacahuaxochitl, Funeral Tree, Rosita de cacao; syn. Lexarza funebris La Llave) is a tree native to Mexico. This plant is used as a medicinal plant, and also as one of the essential ingredients in the traditional chocolate-maize drink known as tejate. It is also depicted on Maya drinking vessels used for cacao.
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Infraspecies

Quararibea funebris funebris
Quararibea funebris nicaraguensis

Attributes

Specific Gravity [1]  0.35

Predators

Anastrepha crebra[2]
Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1WOOD SPECIFIC GRAVITY IN SPECIES FROM TWO TROPICAL FORESTS IN MEXICO, Josefina Barajas-Morales, IAWA Bulletin n.s., Vol. 8 (2), 1987 143-148
♦ 2Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004.
♦ 3Artibeus jamaicensis, Jorge Ortega and Iván Castro-Arellano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 662, pp. 1–9 (2001)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0