Vaco: Brosimum (C); Magnolia (P)
Vagamani: Tapriria (P)
Vaina: Phragmotheca (C)
Vainica: Inga (CR)
Vainilla: Cassia (CR); Tecoma (CR); Vanil (P)
Vainilla enarbol: Selenipedium (P)
Vainilla chica: Selenipedium (P)
Vainillon: Vanilla (CR)
Vanamani: Tapriria (P)
Valdivia: Picramnia (C)
Vanilla: Vanilla (E)
VANILLA FRAGRANS L.: Vanilla (E); Bejucillo (C); Vainilla (S). Cultivated as a perfume by the
Choco .
Vaquero: Dendropanax (P)
Vara de alcalde: Elleanthus (C)
Vara blanca: Casearia (C); Hedyosmum (CR); Protium (C); Senecio (CR); Sorocea (C); Trema (C,CR)
Vara lazo: Lippia (C)
Vara de leon: Laplacea (C)
Vara de piedra: Casearia (C); Pseudolmedia (C)
Vara real: Eugenia (C)
Vara de sanjose: Agave (P)
Vara santa: Triplaris (P)
Varejon de caballo: Eupatorium (C); Vernonia (C)
Varela: Vernonia (C)
Varilazo: Cupania (P)
Varilla negra: Cordia (CR)
Varita de San Jose: Duranta (P); Tabernaemontana (P)
Varsovia: Watsonia (C)
Vegigon: Calotropis (C)
Vela: Parmentiera (P)
Velero: Cassia (C)
Velillo: Cassia (C)
Velita: Lippia (C)
Velo de novia: Asparagus (CA); Solanum (C)
Velvet bean: Mucuna (E)
Velvetleaf: Limnocharis (E)
Venaco: Trema (C)
Venadero: Cissampelos (CR)
Venadillo: Conyza bonariensis (C); Erechtites valerianifolia (C); Porophyllum ruderale (C)
Venadillo grande: Ptgerocaulon alopecuroides (C)
Veneillo: Rauwolfia (C); Stemmadenia (P); Tabernaemontana (P)
Veneito: Calatola (C)
Veneno: Rauwolfia (P)
Venicula: Platymiscium (S)
Ventanilla: Monstera (CR)
Venturosa: Lantana (C); Melanthera (C)
Veraco: Trema (C)
Veranero: Bouganvillea (S); Leucaena (C)
Verbena: Buddleja (CR); Clerodendron (CR); Stachytarpheta (P); Verbena (CR/ROC)
VERBENA LITTORALIS H.B.K.: Verbena (CR/ROC); Vervain (CR/ROC)
Verbena rosada: Valerianoides (N)
Verbesina: Salmea (C)
VERBESINA CRASSIRAMA Blake: Camargo chico (C); Camargo (C); Tabaquillo (C)
VERBESINA PTEROPHORA Blake: Cerbatana (C)
VERBESINA TURBACENSIS H.B.K.: Cerbatana (C); Manito de Dios (C)
Verdolaga: Commelina (P); Portulaca (S) Verduguillo: Geonoma (C)
Vergozosa: Mimosa (C)
VERMIFUGE: A substance for expelling worms. Allium, Aloe, Andira, Annona, Artemisia,
Asclepias, Bocconia, Calotropis, Carapa, Carica, Cassia, Cedrela, Chenopodium, Cocos, Couma,
Cucurbita, Dialyanthera, Ficus, Hippomane, Hura, Lagenaria, Lantana, Lippia, Luffa, Mammea,
Mangifera, Melia, Mirabilis, Momordica, Mucuna, Panicum, Persea, Petiveria, Philodendron,
Philoxerus, Phytolacca, Pteridium, Punica, Quisqualis, Spigelia, Tamarindus, Terminalia, Urena,
Vernonia.
VERNONIA BRACTEATA Benth.: Tabaquillo (C)
VERNONIA BRASILILANA Druce: Vara de caballo (C)
VERNONIA CANESCENS H.B.K.: Maruchonga (C)
VERNONIA CINEREA Less.: The leaves serve as an emergency potherb. The seeds are alexipharmic
and antihelminthic.
VERNONIA PATENS H.B.K.: Boton de pega-pega (P); Indio viejo (C); Lengua de buey (P);
Palo blanco (P); Salvia (P); Sanalego (P); Tuete (CR); Varejon blanco (C). In Costa Rica the leaves
are thrust up the nostril to stop nosebleed.
VERNONIA SCABRA Pers.: Pebetera (C); Barejon (C); Barejon de caballo (C)
Verraco: Roupala (C)
Vervain: Verbena (CR/ROC)
VESICANT: A plant which produces blistering. Allium, Anacardium, Apeiba, Caesalpinia, Carica,
Cercropia, Cissus, Clematis, Crateva, Croton, Dalechampia, Didymopanax, Dioscorea, Euphorbia,
Fleurya, Gurania, Hippomane, Hura, Jatropha, Loasa, Malachara, Mangifera, Moringa, Mucuna,
Pedilanthus, Rhabdabenia, Sapium, Sloanea, Sterculia, Theobroma, Tragia, Urera.
Veza: Vicia (C)
Vibora: Tradescantia (C)
Viboran: Asclepias (CR)
Viborilla: Rauwolfia (N)
Viborrana: Asclepias (CR); Clavija (CR)
VICIA FABA L.: Broad bead (E); Haba (S); Veza (C) . Green pods of this honey plant are
cooked like stringbeans. The seeds, edible roasted, are made into flour.
VICTORIA REGIA Lindl.: Maiz de agua (C). Juice from the flowers is regarded as refrigerant and
aphrodisiac. The seeds are edible.
Vidira mia: Dalechampia (C)
Viernesanto: Phyllanthus (C)
VIGNA UNGUICULATA L.: Cherry bean (E); Cow-pea (E); Horse gram (E); Blackeyed pea (E) (Fig.
315). The pods are eaten like stringbeans. Leaves and young shoots, said to be eidble, contain 4-5%
protein.
Viguare: Campomanesia (C)
Viguaro: Mouriri (C)
Vijaguilla: Muntingia (C)
Vinagrillo: Oxalis (S); Rumex (S)
Vinuela: Hibiscus (P)
Violet: Viola (E)
Violeta: Viola (CR)
Violeta blanca: Nierembergia (C)
Violeta de los Alpes: Cyclamen (C)
Viranjo: Pourouma (Ch)
Viravira: Eupatorium stoechadifolium (C); Gnaphalium elegans (C); Stevia lucida (C)
Virgusa: Cecropia (C)
VIROLA GUATEMALENSIS Warb.: Fruta dorado (CR); Sebo (S). Dry seeds are used for
flavoring chocolate. The seed oil is used for making soap and candles. Whorled twigs are used like
eggbeaters.
VIROLA SEBIFERA Aubl.: Bogamani (P); Fruta dorado (P) . The seeds, some with 60%
oil, are used as candlenuts and soap by Choco and Cuna Indians (!).
VISMIA FERRUGINEA H.B.K.: Achiotillo (C); Bloodwood (J); Carate (C); Punta de lanza (C);
Sangre de perro (P); Sangrillo, Sangrito (C,P). The orange latex is used by San Blas Indians to treat
blanched spots on the skin (!). Other species are used as fish-poisons and fungicides.
VITEX CYMOSA Bert.: Aceituno (C). Thr fruits are sweet but leave a bitter taste in the mouth (!).
VITIS TILIAEFOLIA Roem. & Schult.: Grape (E); Bejuco de agua (P); Uva (P). The sap is
potable. The fruits, edible fresh or dried, make a good vinegar. Young shoots are used as a potherb.
Medicinally, the plant serves as an emollient.
Vitoria: Gurania (C)
Viuda: Petrea (P)
Viudita: Vinca (C)
Vivaseca: Diphysa (C)
Volador: Gyrocarpus (C); Ruprechtia (C); Spiraea (C)
Volcan: Solanum (CR)
VULNERARY: A substance for healilng wounds and sores. Acacia, Acrostichum, Alternanthera,
Argemone, Artocarpus, Baccharis, Basella, Bidens, Bocconia, Bryophyllum, Bursera, Caesalpinia,
Cajanus, Calophyllum, Calotropis, Carica, Casearia, Cassia, Chaptalia, Chrysobalanus,
Cissampelos, Cissus, Clitoria, Clusia, Cocos, Copaifera, Crescentia, Curatella, Datura,
Desmodium, Dolichos, Eclipta, Euphorbia, Ficus, Guazuma, Hymenaea, Jatropha, Kallstroemia,
Lens, Licania, Lippia, Mammea, Momordica, Moringa, Mucuna, Musa, Nerium, Ophioglossum,
Piper, Polymnia, Pothomorphe, Prioria, Protium, Psidium, Pterocarpus, Punica, Rheedia,
Rhizophora, Rivina, Sagittaria, Sapindus, Solanum, Spathodea, Spondias, Symphonia, Terminalila,
Thespesia, Urera, Trixis, Zanthoxylum.