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''Caesalpinia spinosa'' (Molina) Kuntze, commonly known as ''tara'' (Quechua),〔Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionray)〕 is a small leguminous tree or thorny shrub native to Peru.〔All information in article taken from: A. Brack Egg (1999). ''Diccionario Enciclopédico de Plantas Utiles del Perú'' Cusco, Peru: CBC.〕 ''C. spinosa'' is cultivated as a source of tannins based on a galloylated quinic acid structure.〔(Analytical Studies on Tara Tannins. J.M. Garro Galvez, B. Riedl and A. H. Conner, Holzforschung, 51(1997) 235-243 ).〕 This chemical structure has been confirmed also by LC-MS.〔M. N. Clifford, S. Stoupi and N. Kuhnert. (''Profiling and Characterization by LC-MSn of the Galloylquinic Acids of Green Tea, Tara Tannin, and Tannic Acid'' ). J. Agric. Food Chem., 2007, 55 (8), pp. 2797-2807. DOI: 10.1021/jf063533l. Publication Date (Web): March 24, 2007.〕 It is also grown as an ornamental plant because of its large colorful flowers and pods. ==Names and taxonomy== Synonyms: ''Poinciana spinosa'' MOL., ''Caesalpinia pectinata'' CAV., ''C. tara'', ''C. tinctoria'' HBK, ''Coulteria tinctoria'' HBK, ''Tara spinosa'', ''Tara tinctoria''. Common names: Spiny holdback; tara, taya, algarroba tanino (Peru). ''C. spinosa'' is in the Fabaceae family, depending on the classification system, the Caesalpinioideae subfamily, and Caesalpinieae tribe.〔USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) (Database ). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?8311 (27 May 2008)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caesalpinia spinosa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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