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    Guaiacum (/ˈɡwaɪ.ə.kəm/), sometimes spelled Guajacum, is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family Zygophyllaceae. It contains five species of...
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    Guaiacum officinale, commonly known as roughbark lignum-vitae, guaiacwood or gaïacwood, is a species of tree in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae, that...
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    Guaiacum sanctum, commonly known as holywood, lignum vitae or holywood lignum-vitae, is a species of flowering plant in the creosote bush family, Zygophyllaceae...
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    Guaiacum angustifolium is a species of flowering plant in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. Common names include Texas guaiacum, Texas lignum-vitae...
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    purpose. Guaiacum was a popular treatment in the 16th century and was strongly advocated by Ulrich von Hutten and others. Because guaiacum came from...
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    Guaiacum coulteri is a species of flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae, that is native to western Mexico and Guatemala. Rivers, M.C. (2017). "Guaiacum...
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    Lignum vitae (category Guaiacum)
    also called guayacan or guaiacum, and in parts of Europe known as Pockholz or pokhout, is a wood from trees of the genus Guaiacum. The trees are indigenous...
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  • used in soap and perfumery. Despite its name it does not come from the Guaiacum tree, but from the palo santo tree (Bulnesia sarmientoi). Oil of guaiac...
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    pork in a wooden mortar and pestle called a pilón (made with mahogany or guaiacum, both native hardwoods) and shaped more or less into a ball and in or alongside...
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    explorers reached North America in the 16th century. The Spanish encountered guaiacum wood "when they conquered Santo Domingo; it was soon brought back to Europe...
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    a wealthy man receiving treatment for syphilis with the tropical wood guaiacum sometime around 1590. The "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the...
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    Boswellia sacra, galbanum from Ferula gummosa, gum guaiacum from the lignum vitae trees of the genus Guaiacum, kauri gum from trees of Agathis australis, hashish...
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    Dragon's blood (Calamus draco) Elemi Frankincense (Olibanum) Galbanum Guaiacum officinale Guggul Gurjun balsam Imbauba balsam (Cecropia adenopus) Labdanum...
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    native to Colombia and Venezuela. Related to the true lignum vitae trees (Guaiacum), it is known as Maracaibo lignum vitae or (like its relative B. sarmientoi)...
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    vitae". They are close relatives of the "true" lignum vitae trees of genus Guaiacum. Bulnesia arborea – Maracaibo lignum vitae; 'True' Verawood Bulnesia bonariensis...
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    above the door. In his hands, the physician Rangone holds sarsaparilla and guaiacum, two plants which he used to treat syphilis and yellow fever. The reliefs...
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    spines. Some are cultivated as ornamental plants, such as species of the Guaiacum, Zygophyllum, Tribulus, and Larrea genera. King Clone, a creosote bush...
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    wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum chips, sarsaparilla, spicewood, wild cherry bark, yellow dock, prickly...
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  • Ltd, see John C. Kerr Lignum vitae, trade wood from trees of the genus Guaiacum Lignumvitae Key, island in the Florida Keys Vitex lignum-vitae, Australian...
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  • ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwageri) Lignum vitae Guaiacwood (Guaiacum officinale) Holywood (Guaiacum sanctum) Takian (Hopea odorata) Black ironwood (Krugiodendron...
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    in the Caribbean of which 6,500 are endemic. For example, guaiac wood (Guaiacum officinale), the flower of which is the national flower of Jamaica and...
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  • guaicum, or guaiac resin, is a substance produced from the tree species Guaiacum officinale. It is registered as food additive: as a preservative under...
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  • (Varanus mertensi), bigleaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), lignum vitae (Guaiacum officinale), the chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), all stony corals...
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    sesquiterpenoid alcohol found in several plants, especially in the oil of guaiacum and cypress pine. It is a crystalline solid that melts at 92 °C. Guaiol...
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    Guaiacum officinale tree flowered in Cali....
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  • Guayacán is the Spanish word for plant species in the genus Guaiacum. Guayacán may also refer to: Albizia pistaciifolia, Guayacán Cenega, Guayacán Chaparro...
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    gradibus et compositionibus receptorum naturalium, 1526. Vom Holtz Guaico (on guaiacum), 1529. Practica, gemacht auff Europen 1529. Von der Frantzösischen kranckheit...
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    minute. In 1901, it was observed that the compound made the tincture of guaiacum tincture turn blue, a sign of oxygen being released. Around 1905, Loevenhart...
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  • 'Caesalpinia ferrea) (Brazilian ironwood), Brazil Lignum vitae; Guaiacum officinale, Guaiacum sanctum and Argentine, Paraguay Lignum Vitae, Verawood Bulnesia...
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  • common product of the pyrolysis of wood. Guaiacol is usually derived from guaiacum or wood creosote. It is produced by a variety of plants. It is also found...
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