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Physostigma venenosum
Physostigmine Phy`so*stig"mine, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.
Physostigma venenosum
Calabar Cal"a*bar, n. A district on the west coast of Africa. Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

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- Toxicoscordion venenosum, with the common names death camas and meadow death camas, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is...
- Physostigma venenosum, the Calabar bean or ordeal bean, is a leguminous plant, Endemic to tropical Africa, with a seed poisonous to humans. It derives...
- America. It specializes in feeding on the highly poisonous Toxicoscordion venenosum, the meadow deathcamas, and close relatives. It is quite likely the only...
- Chlorocardium venenosum is a species of trees in the family Lauraceae. It is native to South America. Grandtner, M. M.; Chevrette, Julien (2013). Dictionary...
- Lauraceae. It contains only three species, C. esmeraldense, C. rodiei and C. venenosum, and is native to northern South America. The name Chlorocardium means...
- deathcamas Toxicoscordion paniculatum – Foothill deathcamas Toxicoscordion venenosum – Death camas, meadow deathcamas - (several varieties) Zigadenus glaberrimus...
- however, and many wild animals are adapted to eating its fruit. Physostigma venenosum calabar beans, ordeal beans Fabaceae The toxin in the seeds is the parasympathomimetic...
- Nordt, Sean Patrick (January 2025). "Acute death Camas (Toxicoscordion venenosum) plant poisoning in seven family members following foraging for wild onions"...
- Physostigma laxius Merxm. Physostigma mesoponti**** Taub. Physostigma venenosum Balf. "Physostigma Balf". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of...
- Toxicoscordion paniculatum - Foothill deathcamas, sand-corn Toxicoscordion venenosum - Deathcamas, meadow deathcamas - (several varieties) Toxicoscordion micranthum...