Coulequin

The wood trumpet or coulequin ( Cecropia peltata ) is a Fruit tree lactiferous of the family of the Cecropiaceae , or Urticaceae according to phylogenetic classification.

It pushes in tropical America, as much on the peninsula of the Yucatan, in Central America that in large and small the the Antilles.

It is a gasoline pionnière, with rapid growth which needs light, which appears in windfallen woods, in edge of road or forest cut. Its often hollow branches were used by the Amerindian S to manufacture kinds of trumpet S.

Vernacular names: Coulequin, wood-trumpet, wood-gun, false-ricinus, umbrella tree, piss-russet-red.

Distribution

Spontaneous species in North America (Mexico), power station (Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama), the Antilles (Santo Domingo, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique), of the south (Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela).

It was naturalized in the tropical areas of Africa and Asia like in the island S of the Pacifique.

Medicinal use

In Yucatan, Gift Susanno, botanist and specialist in traditional Mexican medicine, hold of his/her father and his grandfather a knowledge on the medicinal plants probably as old as Maya or Aztec civilization. The codex established during the centuries opens the way with the fantastic discovered ones. Thus, a preparation against the diabetes was recently developed. It is drawn from a plant called cecropia and generates much hope, because the diabetes touches more and more people throughout the world…

Notice

One finds in the literature the species Cecropia peltata auct. not L., which is actually the species Cecropia schreberiana Miq. A risk of confusion is thus possible.

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