The Brazilian botanist Ducke was the first to make a definitive association between this snuff used by the natives of the Amazon and the genus Virola in 1938. However, the snuff was first described in detail and identified to species with a voucher specimen in 1954 (Schultes, 1954).
Virola theiodora is a slender tree, 25-75 feet in height, with a cylindrical trunk up to 1.5 feet in diameter and smooth, brown-mottled bark with gray patches. Staminate inflorescences are many- flowered, panicul ...(more)