Jabillo: Hura (S)
Jaboncillo: Gouania (S); Isertia (C); Monoplegma (CR); Phytolacca (CR); Sapindua (S)
JACARANDA AURANTIACA Ait. Curobubo (C); Palo de buba (P). The bark is sometimes used to
treat skin diseases in Panama. The wood may be used in light construction.
Jacinto: Moringa (P)
Jacinto de agua: Eichhornia (C); Pontederia (C)
Jack bean: Canavalia (E)
Jackfruit: Artocarpus (E)
Jacob's coat: Coleus (J)
JACQUINIA sp. Barbasco (S); Barbasco de Pua (C); Hunca-hinca (C) . Crushed roots or
fruits are used as a fish poison, sometimes as an abortifacient. The
flowers are strung on a cord to make long-lasting garlands.
Jago: Genipa (C)
Jaguna: Genipa (P); Scheela (C)
Jagua amarilla: Chimarrhis (P); Genipa (P)
Jagua blanca: Genipa (P)
Jagua colorado: Genipa (P)
Jagua macho: Randia (D)
Jagua de montana: Genipa (P); Sickingia (P)
Jagua negra: Genipa (P)
Jalacate: Calea (CR); Salvia (CR)
Jalapa: Allamanda (CR); Cydista (CR)
Jaltomate: Saracha (CR)
Jamaica: Hibiscus (S); Pimenta (CR)
Jamaica sorrel: Hibiscus (E)
Janeiro: Eriochloa (C)
Janga: Heliconia (Ch)
Japonesa: Congea (S)
Jaqueira: Artocarpus (C)
Jaquillo: Jatropha (C)
Jaragua: Melinis (C)
Jaral: Calea (CR); Lantana (CR)
Jarilla: Eupatorium inulaefolium (C); Lantana (CR); Stevia lucida (C)
Jarilla blanca: Ichthyothera terminalis (C)
Jarina : Dipterodendron (CR); Enterolobium (CR,P); Pithecellobium (P)
Jarro caliente: Machaerium (CR)
Jasmincillo: Petiveria (C)
Jasmin de arbol: Posoqueria (N)
Jasmin de monte: Tabernaemontana (P)
Jasmine: Jasminum (E)
Jasu: Cissus (CR)
Jatamaco: Bursera (C)
JATROPHA CURCAS L. Physic nut (E); Coquillo (S); Jaquillo (C,P); Kwiwala (Cu); Pinon (C,P)
. The plant is used as a lilving fence post. the leaves are used as a fish poison and to
fumigate for bedbugs. The poisonous nuts, mixed with palm oil to kill rats, or used to make soap
and candles, are sometimes eaten after roasting. Bayano Cuna use the plant as a purgative (!).
Styptic latex is used to cure piles and burns. Root ashes are used as a salt substitute. In Darien,
gently boiled leaves are appliled as poultices to external ulcers; they are taken internally for jaundice
(!). The latex serves as an antiseptic (!).
JATROPHA GOSSYPIIFOLIA L. Frailecillo (CR,CR/ROC).
JATROPHA MULTIFIDA L. Col de Nicaragua (P); Tartago emetico (C) . This is one of
Panama's potherbs noted by Seemann in the 19th century. The roasted tubers are eaten. The fruit,
latex, and seeds are poisonous; the latter are purgative, and roasted to treat fevers and venereal
diseases.
JATROPHA URENS L. Stinging nettle (E); Guaritoto (C); Ortiga (S); Pringamoza (C); Take (Cu).
This is one of Panama's many stinging nettles. Known as 'take' to the Cuna, this species is used to
whip minor criminals (!). Infusions of the leaves in Colombia are used as a diuretic and to dissolve
kidney and gall stones.
Jaul: Alnus (CR)
Jaulo: Acalypha (C)
JAUNDICE: A yellow tinge to the skin, eyes, etc., caused by an increase in bile pigment. Treated
with Allium, Ananas, Bambussa, Bocconia, Boerhaavia, Eleusine, Jatropha, Solanum, Tamarindus.
Javilla : Entada (CR,P); Hura (S)
Jayo: Platypodium (C)
Jayo macho: Miconia (C)
Jayo de monte: Erythroxylum (C)
Jazmin: Bouvardia (CR); Catharanthus (P); Isotoma (CR); Ixora (CR); Jasminum (P); Rinorea (C)
Jazmin de arbol: Posoqueria (C)
Jazmin azul: Petrea (C)
Jazmin del Cabo: Gardenia (CR)
Jazmin del embarcadero: Posoqueria (C)
Jazmin de estrella: Isotoma (CR)
Jazmin de mico: Posoqueria (C)
Jazmin del monte: Hillia (CR); Tabernaemontana (D)
Jazmin de oriente: Clerodendrum (C)
Jazmin de la virgen: Bouvardia (CR)
Jazmin de volcan: Hillia (CR)
Jea: Guilielma (Ch)
Jebe: Piscidia (C)
Jelinjoche: Pachira (CR)
Jengibre: Zingiber (S)
Jingibre arborescente: Croton (C)
Jerusalem corn: Sorghum (E)
JESSENIA POLYCARPA Karst. Ibe (Cu); Milpesos (C); Sokarjo (Ch); Trupa (D). Pericarp yields
an oil called 'manteca negra' selling for 10 pesos a fifth (!). The oil is used medicinally as an
anodyne (!). The milky residue is a nutritive beverage called 'yucuta'.
Jicama: Pachyrhizus (CR)
Jicara : Crescentia (S); Minicaria (C); Phytelephas (C)
Jicarillo: Posoqueria (N)
Jigua: Genipa (C); Nictandra (C)
Jigua negra: Licaria (P)
Jiguilote: Cordia (CR)
Jimsonweed: Datura (E)
Jinicuite: Bursera (N)
Jinocuavo, Jinote, Jiote: Bursera (CR)
Jiote: Bursera (CA)
Jipijapa: Carludovica (P)
Jiquelite: Indigofera (S)
Jiquimilla: Polymnia riparia (C)
Jira: Iriartea (P); Socratea (P)
Joba: Zea (Cu)
Jobillo: Astronium (CR); Mosquitoxylon (P); Trichilia (N)
Jobitillo: Phyllanthus (W)
Jobito: Spondias (CR)
Jobito de puerco: Spondias (S)
Jobo: Licania (S); Spondias (S)
Jobo de lagarto: Sciadodendron (P); Xylosma (P)
Jobo macho de tierra fria: Brunellia (C)
Jobotillo: Phyllanthus (P)
Job's tears: Coix (E)
Joche: Plumeria (CR)
Jocomico: Rheedia (N)
Jocote de jobo: Spondias (N)
Jocote de mico: Simarouba (N)
Jocote montero: Spondias (N)
Jocotillo: Oxalis (CA)
John Charles: Hyptis (J)
John Crow Wood: Cespedesia (E)
Joint bush: Miconia (E)
Jolillo: Raphia (N)
Jorco: Rheedia (CR)
Joromito: Crescentia (C)
Joropo: Carludovica (Ch)
Josefita: Miltonia (C)
Josmeca: Adenocalymna (CR)
Joveroso: Sideroxylon (C)
Juajua: Maranta (Ch)
Juanbernardo: Conostegia (P)
Juanculope: Cornutia (C)
Juandecalle: Trixis (CA)
Juan garrote: Coccoloba (C)
Juanilama : Lippia (CR,CR/ROC)
Juanilama de monte: Lippia (N)
Juanilama mocha: Hyptis (CR)
Juanita: Bignonia (C)
Juan lanas: Clematis (C)
Juanramos: Tournefortia (C)
Juansoco: Couma (C)
Juan de la verdad: Aegiphila (P); Cestrum (P)
Juche: Plumeria (CR)
Juco: Trema (CR)
Judasbolsa: Calceolaria (C)
Judias: Phaseolus (C)
Judromajo: Theobroma (Ch)
Jug tree: Cordia (B)
Julio: Melanthera (P)
Junco: Cyperus (S); Dichromena (S); Eleocharis (S)
JUNIGA ACEROIDES Cuatr. Manito de oso (C)
JUNGIA FERRUGINEA L.f. Mano de Oso (C)
JUNGIA MOSCHATA Triana. Mano de Leon (C)
Jupiter: Lagerstroemia (S); Malpighia (CR)
Juria: Mauritia (C); Mauritiella (C)
Juriso: Serjania (CR)
Jurubai: Cochlospermum (C)
Jurubey: Capparis (C)
Justa razos: Zanthoxylum (C)
JUSTICIA CARTAGINENSIS L. Hierba borriguera (P); Negrajoro (P); Hierba de la Trinidad (C).
n Salvador, it is used to treat convulsions in children.
JUSTICIA PECTORALIS Jacq.: Carpenter bush (E); Cerebril (CR/ROC); Tilo (CR/ROC)
JUSTICIA TINCTORIA Hemsl. Azul de mata (CR/ROC); Sacatinta (CR/ROC).
Juste: Corchorus (E)