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  • Perhaps Casanova, who ate chocolate before attempting any of his many conquests, should have shared some with the ladies. damiana (damiana) Turnera diffusa: This herb, native to Mexico's Baja peninsula, is used to make a tea widely believed in Mexico to be an aphrodisiac.

    Food For Valentine's Day: Mexican Native Aphrodisiacs 2006

  • Perhaps Casanova, who ate chocolate before attempting any of his many conquests, should have shared some with the ladies. damiana (damiana) Turnera diffusa: This herb, native to Mexico's Baja peninsula, is used to make a tea widely believed in Mexico to be an aphrodisiac.

    Food For Valentine's Day: Mexican Native Aphrodisiacs 2006

  • Cliffortianus_, which figures indeed are so similar that they look like copies of each other, these represent the true elm leaf; on the same plate of _Martyn's Cent. _ there is given a very excellent figure of what he considers as another species of Turnera, vide Synon. and which

    The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772

  • London as the _Turnera ulmifolia_, or _Elm-leav'd Turnera_, its foliage however does not answer to the name, nor to the figures of the plant as given by MARTYN in his _Cent.

    The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772

  • PLUMIER gave to this genus the name of _Turnera_, in honour of Dr. WILLIAM TURNER, a celebrated English Botanist and Physician, who published an Herbal, black letter, folio, in 1568.

    The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772

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