Description: The Lemon Grass is a plant native to tropical regions of Asia, in India, where it is used in traditional medicine and in cookery. According to Manuel Vaz, in Cape Verde, this plant is known as Xáliz (C.V.) and used for medicinal purposes in the form of compresses and teas, in particular as soothing and relieve digestive problems. (*)
Provided by: Guilhermina Pereira. A Cape Verde native.
Present Location: It was destroyed during the demolition of the house.
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 after the demolition in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
(C.V.) Word in Cape Verde creole language.
