Wild Flowering Plants
| Rhamnaceae family Colubrina elliptica (Swartz) Brizicky & W. L. Stearn, Trop. Woods 109: 95. 1958. Bas.: Rhamnus elliptica Swartz (1788). Mabi. Mauby. Indigenous very rare tree of coastal deciduous seasonal forest, around Anse Dauphin, Dauphin. St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Les Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, rest of West Indies, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. Also cultivated for its twigs which are made into a juice. Local medicinal uses |