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Native quechua and botanical names of master plants and trees of the Peruvian Amazon

Chonta Quiro tree (Diplotropis sp., according to A. Brack, or Anthodiscus sp. following A. Gentry classification)

Photo Credit: Paola Garavaglia

 Chonta Quiro: a 'doctor-tree' which deliver more strength to the one who 'diets' with it.

Plant classification from:

* Brack Egg, A., 1999: Dicionario Enciclopedico de Plantas Utiles del Peru

*Gentry, A., 1993: A Field Guide to the Familie and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America