Morinda citrifolia L. (Rubiaceae)

Common names in Jamaica: Noni , hog apple , duppy soursop

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Ina Vandebroek David Picking

Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica

Advances in Economic Botany ISSN: 0741-8280 Launched in 1984 by The New York Botanical Garden’s Institute of Economic Botany, Advances in Economic Botany (AEB) is an international forum for the publication of original book-length research manuscripts, collections of edited papers, and symposia dealing with traditional and local plant knowledge, the use and management of plants and their ecosystems, as well as the social-ecological dimensions of plant use. An interdisciplinary series designed to showcase pure and applied studies, AEB has found its readership among researchers, teachers, policymakers, and students of ethnobotany, anthropology, botany, biology, ecology, economic botany, agronomy, geography, pharmacology, and medicine.

Advances in Economic Botany, Volume 19 Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica Ina Vandebroek and David Picking Guest Editor for AEB volume 19: Dr. Michael J. Balick Institute of Economic Botany The New York Botanical Garden

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/16354

Volumes 1-18 of AEB were published by NYBG Press: Ethnobotany in the Neotropics (AEB 1) The Life and Botanical Accomplishments of Boris Alexander Krukoff (AEB 2) Systematics and Economic Botany of the Oenocarpus-Jessenia (Palmae) Complex (AEB 3) Ethnobotany of the Chácobo Indians, Beni, Bolivia (AEB 4) Swidden-Fallow Agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon (AEB 5) The Palm -Tree of Life: Biology, Utilization, and Conservation (AEB 6) Resource Management in Amazonia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies (AEB 7) New Directions in the Study of Plants and People (AEB 8) Non-Timber Products from Tropical Forests: Evaluation of a Conservation and Development Strategy (AEB 9)

Selected Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research: A Field Manual (AEB 10) Beyond Slash and Burn: Building on Indigenous Management of Borneo’s Tropical Rain Forests (AEB 11) Medicinal Plants: Can Utilization and Conservation Coexist? (AEB12) Várzea: Diversity, Development, and Conservation of Amazonia’s Whitewater Floodplains (AEB 13) Ethnobotany of the Shuar of Eastern Ecuador (AEB 14) Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity (AEB 15) The Amazonian Caboclo and the Açaí Palm: Forest Farmers in the Global Market (AEB 16) Bark: Use, Management, and Commerce in Africa (AEB 17) Vanilla Landscapes: Meaning, Memory, and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar (AEB 18)

Volumes 1—18 are available as printed books exclusively from NYBG Shop: https://www.nybgshop.org/. AEB volumes 16 and 18 are also available as e-books exclusively from NYBG Shop. AEB volume 19 is available exclusively from Springer. Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica (AEB 19)

Ina Vandebroek • David Picking

Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica

Ina Vandebroek Institute of Economic Botany The New York Botanical Garden Bronx, NY, USA

David Picking Natural Products Institute The University of the West Indies,