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A traditional food plant in Africa, tamarind has the potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare. [52] In Madagascar, its fruit and leaves are a well-known favorite of the ring-tailed lemur , providing as much as 50 percent of their food resources during the year if available.
Beyond adverse effects from the herb itself, "adulteration, inappropriate formulation, or lack of understanding of plant and drug interactions have led to adverse reactions that are sometimes life threatening or lethal." [3]
All plants grown in the garden are native to somewhere, just not necessarily to our local region. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Plants in the Umbel family (carrots, parsley, dill) are known for this, as is sweet alyssum.Using trap crops when companion planting in order to lure insects away from certain crops is preferred ...
Trichanthera gigantea is a species of flowering plant in the acanthus family, Acanthaceae. [1] The species is known by many common names, including madre de agua, suiban, cenicero, tuno, naranjillo, palo de agua and ketum ayam. [2] It is native to Central America and northern South America.
Combretum micranthum is a species of flowering plant in the family Combretaceae. It is a shrub known as kinkeliba in Guinea, Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali and the Gambia across multiple regional dialects, where it is often found in tiger bush and on hills in West Africa. It is used for making tea and has uses in traditional medicine, and ...
It is a small biennial plant with thick fusiform tuberous roots and striking funnel-shaped violet-colored flowers. Its fruit is a 2 cm (0.8 in) long sessile capsule containing about 20 seeds. Some of the names of the plant such as popping pod , duppy gun and cracker plant come from the fact that children like to play with the dry pods that pop ...
The plant is already used as traditional contraceptive method in Indonesia. [19] The plant compound Patentiflorin A contained in J. gendarussa has shown to have a positive activity against several HIV strains, higher than the clinically used first anti-HIV drug, zidovudine AZT. [20] Further, extracts of the leaves have an anti-inflammatory effect.