Myrica Cerifera

Scientific Name: Myrica cerifera

Symbol: MYCE

Genus: Myrica

Edible: unknown

Wax Myrtle

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Scientific Name: Myrica cerifera

Common Name(s): Southern Bayberry, Wax Myrtle

Edible: yes

Medicinal: yes

Parts Used: root, leaf

crashdive123 7 Sep, 2009	Warning: Wax is irritating. Constituents of the wax are reportedly carcinogenic.
Current Rating: 0.0000

crashdive123 7 Sep, 2009	An evergreen, southern shrub or small tree. Leaves often leathery; wedge-shaped; toothed or not toward tipl resin-dots both above and below. Twigs nearly hairless. Height 10-30 feet.
Current Rating: 0.0000

crashdive123 7 Sep, 2009	Where found: Coastal plain, moist sandy or gravelly soil. S. New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas and north to Arkansas. Fruit: August - October.
Current Rating: 0.0000

crashdive123 7 Sep, 2009	Low, dense shrubs or small trees with stiff branches bearing oblong or narrower, toothless or slightly toothed leaves which are 1-4 inches long. Note the clusters of small, round, berrylike nutlets covered with white or gray wax. Leaves and nutlets strongly aromatic.
Current Rating: 0.0000

crashdive123
7 Sep, 2009

Additional uses: Candle wax is produced from fruits. Root bark formerly used in tea as an astringent and emetic for chronic gastritis, diarrhea, dysentery, leukorrhea, "catarrhal states of the alimentary tracts," jaundice, fevers, externally as a wash for itching. Powdered root bark was an ingedient in "composition powder," once a widely used home remedy for colds and chills. One component in the plant, myricitrin, has anti-inflammatory, antimutagenic, diuretic, and antibacterial activity.

Current Rating: 0.0000

crashdive123 7 Sep, 2009	Use: Seasoning, candles. The leaves and nutlets can be used in place of commercial bay leaves. The wax boiled from the mutlets can be made into aromatic candles.
Current Rating: -0.5000

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