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Most common hosts are: citrus trees, papayas, sweet potatoes, ornamental plants, sugarcane, panicum grasses, peanut, corn, and other plant species. The citrus root weevil is known to feed on over 270 species of plants from 59 different families. Diestrammena asynamora: greenhouse camel cricket Insecta: Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: None ...
The most invasive plant in Texas is the common bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon). In certain cases, like a lawn or grazing pasture, it is extremely valuable to the landowner. Common bermudagrass ...
Gould's Ecoregions of Texas (1960). [1] These regions approximately correspond to the EPA's level 3 ecoregions. [2] The following is a list of widely known trees and shrubs found in Texas. [3] [4] [5] Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order by family. [6]
Poison Ivy, a well-known toxic plant common in Texas especially during the spring and summer, causes an itchy painful rash. This is caused by its sap that has a clear liquid called urushiol.
This is a list of plant species that, when consumed by humans, are known or suspected to produce psychoactive effects: changes in nervous system function that alter perception, mood, consciousness, cognition or behavior. Many of these plants are used intentionally as psychoactive drugs, for
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...
Taxine B, the most common alkaloid in Taxus species, is also the most cardiotoxic taxine, followed by taxine A. [6] [24] [4] Taxine alkaloids are absorbed quickly from the intestine and in high enough quantities can cause death due to general cardiac failure, cardiac arrest or respiratory failure. [ 25 ]
Various plants are used around the world for smoking due to various chemical compounds they contain and the effects of these chemicals on the human body. This list contains plants that are smoked, rather than those that are used in the process of smoking or in the preparation of the substance.