Brunfelsia manaca, Brunfelsia currugata

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It can be found in the Amazon regions of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. Manacá is a medium-sized, shrubby tree that grows to 8 m high and is indigenous to the Amazon rainforest. Often it is cultivated as an ornamental; it produces pretty, yellowish-white, highly-fragrant flowers, from which a perfume is extracted. Indigenous tribes in the northwest Amazon consider manacá to be a diaphoretic and diuretic. They use it for fever, rheumatism, snakebite, syphilis, and yellow fever.

See article about Brunfelsias: Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil.

Similar plants:

• Brunfelsia americana (Lady of the night)
• Brunfelsia australis, Brunfelsia bonodora, Brunfelsia latifolia (Yesterday-Today-and-Tomorrow)
• Brunfelsia densifolia (Serpentine Hill rain tree)
• Brunfelsia gigantea (Lady of the Night)
• Brunfelsia grandiflora (Yesterday -Today -Tomorrow, Kiss-me-quick, Royal Purple Brunfelsia)
• Brunfelsia isola (Hybrid Brunfelsia, Purple Lady of the Night)
• Brunfelsia jamaicensis, Brunfelsia plicata (Lady of the Night)
• Brunfelsia lactea (Lady of the night)
• Brunfelsia magnifica Floribunda (Morning, Noon and Night)
• Brunfelsia mire (Brunfelsia)