Taxon: Cantua buxifolia Lam.

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• magic-flower   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• magic-flower-of-the-Incas   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• magictree   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• sacred-flower-of-the-Incas   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• khantuta   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Aymara (Peru)
  
• ccantu   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Quichua (Peru)
  
• cantuta   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• flor del inca   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• inkagull   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia [w.]; Peru

• 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).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. 58–59.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cantua buxifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cantua buxifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cantua buxifolia.

Check other web resources for Cantua buxifolia Lam.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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