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Lonchocarpus
Also called Cabbage Bark, Turtle Bone
Lonchocarpus is a plant genus in the legume family (Fabaceae). It includes 166 species native to the tropical Americas, tropical Africa, and Madasgascar. The species are called lancepods due to their fruit resembling an ornate lance tip or a few beads on a string.
Cubé resin is produced from the roots of L. urucu and namely ''L. utilis (cubé). It contains enough of the toxic rotenoids rotenone and deguelin to be used as an insecticide and piscicide. As these are naturally occurring compounds, they were formerly used in organic farming. Since it is highly unselective and kills useful, as well as pest, animals, it is considered harmful to the environment today. Also, chronic exposure to rotenone and deguelin appears to increase the risk of Parkinson's disease, even in mammals, for which these compounds are less immediately toxic than for fish and insects.
Lonchocarpus castilloi · Lonchocarpus chiricanus · Lonchocarpus minimiflorus · Lonchocarpus molinae · Lonchocarpus phaseolifolius · Lonchocarpus phlebophyllus · Lonchocarpus pluvialis · Lonchocarpus retifer · Lonchocarpus salvadorensis · Lonchocarpus sanctuarii · Lonchocarpus santarosanus · Lonchocarpus trifolius
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lonchocarpus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
