Range. Native to Peru; naturalized elsewhere. Escaped in United States and Amer­ican tropics, often weedy. In Myanmar, found in Mandalay and Shan.

Use
Seed: Used for fumigation of toothache.

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Origin
“Cariri Paraibano”, Brazil
Medicinal indication
As fly poison: Fruits and leaves

1) DeFilipps, Robert A.; Krupnick, Gary A. / PhytoKeys, v. 102. - - p. 1 - 314,  2018.

2) M.F. Agra; et al/ Medicinal and poisonous diversity of the flora of “Cariri Paraibano”, Brazil/ Journal of Ethnopharmacology 111 (2007), p. 392.