Non scientific name details for myrica cerifera - Medicinal Plant Names Services

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Non-scientific name:

myrica cerifera

1 Accepted name(s) for "myrica cerifera":

Accepted name
Myrica cerifera L.

5 Medicinal source(s) include this non-scientific name:

Medicinal sources:	Scientific names as used in medicinal source:	MPNS matched scientific names:	Accepted name:	Drug form:	Plant parts:
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)	Morella cerifera (L.) Small	Morella cerifera (L.) Small	Myrica cerifera L.
SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)	Myrica cerifera	Myrica cerifera L. MPNS Best Guess	Myrica cerifera L.
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)	Myrica cerifera L.	Myrica cerifera L.	Myrica cerifera L.
Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)	Myrica cerifera	Myrica cerifera L.	Myrica cerifera L.
Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)	Myrica cerifera	Myrica cerifera L.	Myrica cerifera L.

12 Non-scientific name(s) associated with "myrica cerifera":

Non-scientific names:	Class of name:	Medicinal sources:
bayberry	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
berry wax	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
candle berry	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
candleberry	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
fallow shrub	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
mirika	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
mum ag	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
myrtle	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
southern bayberry	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tallow shrub	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
wax myrtle	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
waxmyrtle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)