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Mitragyna speciosa is a tropical evergreen tree of the Rubiaceae family (coffee family) native to Southeast Asia. [3] It is indigenous to Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea, [4] where its leaves, known as kratom, have been used in herbal medicine since at least the 19th century. [5]
Charaxes candiope, the green-veined emperor or green-veined charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is common in sub-Saharan Africa. Biology
The "venom" contained in the salival fluids of O. fulgidus is fast-acting on small animals, but has little to no effect on humans. Envenomation of human beings is rare, as the location and structure of the blunt teeth, at the rear of the mouth, requires the snake to willingly grab-hold and "chew-in" its toxic saliva (something most people will ...
Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of very large centipede found throughout southeastern Asia. One of the most widespread and common species in the genus Scolopendra, it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean ...
The Bornean keeled green pit viper or North Philippine temple pit viper (Tropidolaemus subannulatus) is a pit viper species native to Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Until 2007, this species was considered part of the Tropidolaemus wagleri species complex .
For open space filling to take effect, the confining pressure is generally considered to be below 0.5 GPa, or less than 3–5 km (2–3 mi). Veins formed in this way may exhibit a colloform, agate-like habit, of sequential selvages of minerals which radiate out from nucleation points on the vein walls and appear to fill up the available open ...
Staurois tuberilinguis (common names: Borneo splash frog, green-spotted rock frog) is a semi-aquatic amphibian of the true frog family . This diurnal and crepuscular frog is also commonly associated with its very close relative Staurois parvus (common name: Borneo rock frog). In fact, many do not consider the two species to be taxonomically ...
Paradise tree snake or paradise flying snake (Chrysopelea paradisi) is a species of colubrid snake found in Southeast Asia.It can, like all species of its genus Chrysopelea, glide by stretching the body into a flattened strip using its ribs.