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Conopholis americana, the American cancer-root, bumeh or bear corn, is a perennial, [3] non-photosynthesizing (or "achlorophyllous") parasitic plant. It is from the family Orobanchaceae and more recently from the genus Conopholis but also listed as Orobanche, native but not endemic to North America. When blooming, it resembles a pine cone or ...
Extracts from Camptotheca (the "happy tree" or "cancer tree") were used to develop the chemotherapeutic drug Topotecan. Plant sources of anti-cancer agents are plants, the derivatives of which have been shown to be usable for the treatment or prevention of cancer in humans. [1] [2]
Cancer root. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; ... Cancer root is a common name for several plants in the family Orobanchaceae, particularly genera:
This plant has many uses in Native American medicine. The Zuni use an infusion of the root for body aches. The root is also chewed during curing ceremonies for various illnesses, and the crushed root and water used as wash and taken for sore throat. [22] The Rarámuri also use the root as herbal medicine. [20]
Orobanche uniflora, commonly known as one-flowered broomrape, [1] one-flowered cancer root, [2] ghost pipe [3] or naked broomrape, [4] is an annual [5] [6] parasitic herbaceous plant. It is native to much of North America, where it is a parasitic plant , tapping nutrients from many other species of plants, including those in the families ...
Conopholis alpina, known as the alpine cancer-root, is an achlorophyllous (lacking chlorophyll), root parasitic plant (holoparasite). It is native to Northern Mexico, and to the Southwestern United States in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Texas. [1] Varieties. Conopholis alpina var. mexicana — Mexican cancer-root. [2]
Aralia nudicaulis (commonly wild sarsaparilla, [3] false sarsaparilla, shot bush, small spikenard, wild liquorice, and rabbit root) is a species of flowering plant in the ivy family Araliaceae. It is native to northern and eastern North America.
Jeffersonia, also known as twinleaf or rheumatism root, is a small genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Berberidaceae. They are uncommon spring wildflowers and grow in limestone soils of rich deciduous forests. Jeffersonia was named for United States President Thomas Jefferson by his contemporary Benjamin Smith Barton. [1]