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Hoodia gordonii, also known as Bushman’s hat, is a leafless spiny succulent plant supposed to have therapeutic properties in folk medicine. It grows naturally in Botswana , South Africa and Namibia .
Hoodia gordonii is traditionally used by the San people (Bushmen) of the Namib desert as an appetite suppressant as part of their indigenous knowledge about survival in the harsh desert conditions. In 2006, the plant became internationally known, after a marketing campaign falsely claimed that its use as a dietary supplement was an appetite ...
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Hoodia juttae is small and branches freely into a small "shrublet." [ 5 ] The plant is often more broad than it grows tall, rarely being taller than 0.3 meters in height. [ 7 ] Flowers are medium-sized and yellow-brown in color [ 7 ] and grow in groups on the upper part of the pale gray-green stems.
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Hoodia currorii grows in erect clumps with gray-green stems, 8 centimeters in diameter. [4] It reaches heights of 50 to 80 centimeters tall. [4] It bears rust-red flowers mid-summer [5] which are covered in purple hairs. [4] These are large flowers, about five to ten centimeters in diameter. [2]
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