Tree ID
C4333142
This tree is commonly known as
Brugmansia
The tree's age is considered
old
Borracheros (Brugmansia) have been grown and used by indigenous peoples from Colombia to Chile for milenia. No place harbors more varieties than Sibundoy (Tabanok) were Kämentza and Inga healers have used them in variety of ways.
This specimen resides since 1955 in the Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames of Harvard University where it was entered by ethnobotanist E Schultes and I Cabrera (back then classified as Methysticodendron - see record here. https://data.huh.harvard.edu/databases/specimen_search.php?mode=details&id=67872)
Schultes’ guide and teacher in Tabanok was Salvador Chindoy, a renowned Kamentsá taita (shaman/healer) skilled in traditional plant remedies, well traveled and known in the public markets of Bogotá and Quito where he shared his knowledge about medicinal plants, sold barks, roots and herbs grown in his family forest garden or collected by him around Tabanok.
This specimen resides since 1955 in the Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames of Harvard University where it was entered by ethnobotanist E Schultes and I Cabrera (back then classified as Methysticodendron - see record here. https://data.huh.harvard.edu/databases/specimen_search.php?mode=details&id=67872)
Schultes’ guide and teacher in Tabanok was Salvador Chindoy, a renowned Kamentsá taita (shaman/healer) skilled in traditional plant remedies, well traveled and known in the public markets of Bogotá and Quito where he shared his knowledge about medicinal plants, sold barks, roots and herbs grown in his family forest garden or collected by him around Tabanok.
By
Salvador Chindoy
Created in
Buath Gurru Grass Flowering Season