Taxon: Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J. W. Moore

See also subordinate taxa:

• Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa (no accessions)

Common names:

• bay-rum-tree   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• bay-rum-tree   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa]
  
• West Indian bay   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English
  
• West Indian bay   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English   [Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa]
  
• bois d'Inde   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – French   [Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa]
  
• piment couronné   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa]
  
• Bayrumbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa]
  
• malagueta   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa]
  
• bayoljeträd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad; Virgin Islands (British) - Tortola, Virgin Gorda; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Landrum, L. R. 1986. Campomanesia, Pimenta, Blepharocalyx, Legrandia, Acca, Myrrhinium, and Luma (Myrtaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 45:105.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pimenta racemosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pimenta racemosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pimenta racemosa.

Synonyms:

• Caryophyllus racemosus Mill. [≡ Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa]
  
• Pimenta acris auct. [= Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other web resources for Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J. W. Moore:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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