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The dead-man's tree is very poisonous. [5] Like all Euphorbia the sap or "latex" is harmful, and that of E. cupularis gives off an irritating vapour. Contact with the eye can cause considerable destruction and with the mouth a rash, swelling, and peeling of the skin. [6] John Medley Wood, a Natal botanist, said the plant must be handled with ...
The Plant List is an Internet encyclopedia project to compile a comprehensive list of botanical nomenclature, created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Missouri Botanical Garden. [12] The Plant List has 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank, of which 298,900 are accepted species names.
Monotropa uniflora, also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe, is an herbaceous, parasitic, non-photosynthesizing, perennial flowering plant native to temperate regions of Asia, North America, and northern South America, but with large gaps between areas.
Tropicos is an online botanical database containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from the Neotropical realm (Central, and South America).It is maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden and was established in 1982.
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Geobotanically, Missouri belongs to the North American Atlantic region, and spans all three floristic provinces that make up the region: the state transitions from the deciduous forest of the Appalachian province to the grasslands of the North American Prairies province in the west and northwest, and the northward extension of the Mississippi embayment places the bootheel in the Atlantic and ...