Diospyros diepenhorstii

Tannins often possess molluscicidal activity against the schistosomiasis-transmitting snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, an intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni. The active molluscicidal and piscicidal compounds from Mammea sia-mensis (Clusiaceae), Polygonum stagninum, and Diospyros diepenhorstii are all proanthocyanidin polymers (Balza et al., 1989). 

Balza, F., Z. Abramowski, G. H. N. Towers, and P. Wiriyachi-TRA, Identification of proanthocyanidin polymers as the piscici-dal constituents of Mammea siamensis. Polygonum stagninum, and Diospyros diepenhorstii, Phytochemistry, 28, 1827-1830 (1989). 

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