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D. moroides is a straggly perennial shrub, usually flowering and fruiting when less than 3 m (10 ft) tall, but it may reach up to 10 m (33 ft) in height. It is superficially similar to Dendrocnide cordifolia, with the most obvious difference being the point of attachment of the petiole to the leaf blade—where D. moroides is peltate, i.e. the stalk attaches to the underside of the leaf and ...
The plant generally gets more toxic with maturity, with the exception of the berries (which have significant toxicity even while green). [171] Pieris japonica: Japanese pieris Ericaceae: The plant is poisonous if consumed by people or animals. [172] Plumeria spp. frangipani Apocynaceae: Contact with the milky latex may irritate eyes and skin ...
Flavonoids (contained in many medicinal plants) [5] Vitamin P, citrin Flavonoids, bioflavonoids Hemolytic anemia, kidney damage [5] Germander: Teucrium: Liver damage [3] [5] Ginger: Zingiber officinale: May increase the risk of bleeding [16] Ginkgo: gingko Ginkgo biloba: Bleeding [15] [16] American Ginseng
Ahead, we spoke to gardening experts about some of the most hard-to-kill plants you can add to your garden. Meet Our Expert. Lara Hermanson, the co-founder of Farmscape.
No green thumb? No problem. We put together a guide to 10 plants that are hard to kill, including cast-iron plant, ZZ plant, and pothos.
The plant will then only drink as needed, self-regulating its hydration for low-maintenance, healthy, long-lasting plants. This trio in particular also doesn't need much light, which makes them ...
Atropa bella-donna has a long history of use as a medicine, cosmetic, and poison. [14] [4] [15] Known originally under various folk names (such as "deadly nightshade" in English), the plant was named Atropa bella-donna by Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) when he devised his classification system.
Phytoncides are antimicrobial allelochemic [dubious – discuss] volatile organic compounds derived from plants.The word, which means "exterminated by the plant" [citation needed] (from the Greek φυτόν "plant" and the Latin caedere "to kill"), was coined in 1928 by Boris P. Tokin, a Soviet biochemist then studying at Moscow State University. [1]