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RICA
Alcantholippia deserticola Familiy: Verbenaceae
Perennial plant of 50 cms. It grows with tolilla and bailahuen.
In October appears the violet colour flowers. You can prepare
it, toasting the stem and leafs, and drink it as tea. Is a
very aromatic plant. As home medicine is use as herbal tea
for stomach pain. Also is useful for stop diarreas and illness
caused by the eating of heavy food.
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CHACHACOMA
Senecio eriophyton remy. Family: Asteraceae
Highland plant of 20 cms. with yellow flower and grows at
4000 mts. In medicine it is a helpful herb for the high puna
and air illnesses. Is nice for head pain, stomach pain, also
for bronchitis, asma, cough and head cold. It is appreciated
as tonic and stimulating. You can use chachacoma for head
colds as steam.... inhale the smoke.
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QUINOA
Highland cereal, quinua or canigua. (chenopodium
quinoa). Is an herbaceous plant and rise till 80 cms. high.
The quinoa fruit is 2 mm. diameter and of several colours.
Is a native plant from the occidental Andes, you have more
quinoa at Bolivia and Peru, also at Colombia and Chile. The
preparation of the quinoa fruits is washing it before cooking
it as rice. The leafs and the stems are forage for the animals. |
LLARETA
Azorella
Compact of low growing. The llareta flowers are small and
yellow colour. When it get dry, the llareta is an excellent
fuel, that is why that in the old times was indiscriminated
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Woody
plants with a lot of morphology and xeromorphic characteristics
that gives great living capacity at this arids environments.
Has photosynthetic stem called cladode, capable to reserve
water, cover by a thick cape of wax and leafs transformed
in thorns. It have acid metabolism and stomas that open
only by nights for to absorbe CO2. Flowers are generally
solitaire and the fruits are berries. Is an american distribuitor
family with only one specie in Africa. In Chile you find
85 species of complicated classification. The morphology
of the cactaceas are variable and as the plant form you
can distinguished the following types:
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capacity for to live in the desert, because of the ability
for to capture nitrogen and water by the long roots. The trunk
rise 18 mts. high and 2 mts diameter, with large flexible
thorny branches. Twice a year give light yellow colour flowers.
Between December and March is the principal fructification,
but also give fruits between June and July in less quantity.
The algarrobo is a green vegetable fruit use for the elaboration
of atacamenian haloja, popular fermented maize of nice taste
with curative properties for the stomach and kidneys. Also
is use for the elaboration of flour and for animals food.
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an olive, you can eat it and have sweet taste. Also is the
base for the elaboration of a throat syrup called arrope.
The trunk is green colour and the chañar wood is useful
for the elaboration of coal. Have green leafs with yellow
hermaphrodite flowers that flourish in spring time. The chañar
geographic distribution is at the driest regions of the country,
specially central and north. In Argentina you can find chañar
trees from Jujuy till the north of the patagonia. The chañar
fruit was a very important diet for the atacamenian natives.
The wood is quoted for construtions.
marugo.
Family: Minosaceae
