Description: This plant is widely spread both in tropical regions and also in the Mediterranean area. It is commonly associated with magic. It is believed that its strong odor is a mean to ward off the evil eye. According to Ana Moreno, a Quinta da Vitoria resident, the Rue leaves were used in Cape Verde against headaches by putting a compress behind the ears and also on the forehead. (*)
Provided by: Ana Moreira dos Santos, a Cape Verde-born Portuguese.
Present Location: Vitoria Garden Collection (transplanted from Quinta da Vitoria neighborhood in October 2014).
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and later to your demolition, recorded in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014