Uses
The tree has good wood and it is used industrially because of this. Traditionally, the tree were used to treat worms of the intestine. The Amazon Indians Waiãpi living in the West of Amapá State of Brazil, treat malaria with an inhalation of vapor obtained from leaves of Viola surinamensis.
Virola surinamensis is popularly known as "mucuíba", "ucuuba" or "ucuúba do igapó"
The fruit contains lauric acid (78,000-115,000 ppm).
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