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Common Names S-Z

  • sacred pepper
  • sagu
  • sainillo
  • salvia
  • sándalo
  • sandbox tree
  • sangre de toro
  • sangregado
  • sangrillo
  • sangrillo colorado
  • sangrillo paleta
  • sangrillo sangregado
  • santamaría
  • santilla de comer
  • sapote
  • sapote mechudo
  • Sata Maria
  • satra
  • scarletbush
  • scarletfruit passionflower
  • scotch attorney
  • sensitiva
  • sensitive plant
  • servilleta de pobre
  • shameplant
  • shortleaf fig
  • sigua
  • silk-cotton tree
  • soncolla
  • sonzapote
  • sota caballo
  • soursop
  • Spanish cedar
  • Spanish moss
  • spiritweed
  • sponge cucumber
  • star apple
  • star-apple
  • stinking passionflower
  • stinkingtoe
  • strawberrytree
  • sugarcane
  • suita
  • surá
  • surtua
  • tabacon
  • tabacón
  • tagua
  • tagua-tagua
  • tallow wood
  • tallowwood
  • tamarindo
  • tamarindón
  • tapa culo
  • tapamiel
  • taparo de monte
  • tapioca
  • targúa
  • tautuba
  • tickclover
  • tintillo
  • toreta
  • torongil
  • troipical almond
  • tropical almond
  • tropical duckweed
  • trumpet tree
  • túatúa
  • tucuico
  • vaco-lechoso
  • vainilla
  • vegetable marrow
  • vegetable sponge
  • Vera cruz pepper
  • volador
  • water lettuce
  • water-lettuce
  • West Indian balsa
  • west indian birch
  • West Indian locust
  • white cedar
  • white garland-lily
  • white ginger
  • white indigoberry
  • white lippia
  • white mangrove
  • wild balsam apple
  • wild banyantree
  • wild mammee
  • wild spikenard
  • yayo
  • yellow mombin
  • yellow sanders
  • yema de huevo
  • yerba de bruja
  • yerba santa
  • ylang-ylang
  • Yodo
  • yolillo
  • yos
  • yuca
  • yuco
  • yuquilla
  • zamia
  • zapatero
  • zapote calentura
  • zapote mechudo
  • zapotón
  • zarzabacoa comun
  • zarzaparrilla
  • zatra
  • zonzapote
  • zopilote
  • zorrillo

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