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Aristolochia maxima

Botanic Family

Aristolochiaceae

Author

Jacquin

Common Names

• Bejuco carare (Spanish)
• Bejuco guasagil (Spanish)
• Capitana de Corezón
• (Spanish) Contra Capitana(Spanish) Cuajilote (Costa Rica)
• Carraquito (Costa Rica)
• Gallitos
• Guaco (Spanish)
• Guasca Carare (Spanish)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Amazonas - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• . Secondary vegetation
• forest
• tropical forest
• coastal forest & thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• May
• Aug
• Sep
• Dec

Cauliflorous twining liana, older stems with corky ridges, young stems puberulent. Leaves to 180mm long glabrous above puberulent or pilose beneath. Few-many flowered axillary racemes of purple-brown flowers with white spotted throat to 100mm long, calyx to 100mm long. 125mm long fruits green aging brown.

Tender pods edible. Used for snakebite. Medicinal

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• Standley
• Kew