Adenium multiflorum
| Sabi star | |
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| Adenium multiflorum in cultivation at the University of California Botanical Garden. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Genus: | Adenium |
| Species: | A. multiflorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch. | |
Adenium multiflorum is small, succulent tree native to central and eastern Southern Africa. Like other members of the succulent Apocynaceae family, A. multiflorum has a milky latex with toxic alkaloids, specifically Cardiac glycosides . This latex is used as an arrow poison and as a fish stunning poison.[1]
It is sometimes treated as a variety or subspecies of Adenium obesum.[2]
References
- ↑ Neuwinger, Dieter (July 1996). African Ethnobotany: Poisons and Drugs: Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology. Chapman & Hall. p. 941. ISBN 978-3-8261-0077-2.
- ↑ Stoffel Petrus Bester (June 2004). "Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch". South African National Biodiversity Institute's plant information website.
- "Adenium multiflorum". Plantz Afrika. Archived from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
External links
- Adenium multiflorum. Protabase
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