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Cerbera
''Cerbera'' is a genus of evergreen small trees or shrubs, native to tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar, and various islands in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Three trees of this genus are mangroves, '' Cerbera floribunda'', '' Cerbera manghas'' and '' Cerbera odollam''. The leaves are alternate and lack interpetiolar stipules. The tubular corollas are actinomorphic, i.e. they are symmetric and can be divided in halves along any diameter. All trees contain a white latex. The fruits are drupes. The genus is named after Cerberus because all its parts are poisonous : they contain cerberin, a cardiac glycoside, a substance that blocks electric impulses in the body (including the beating of the heart). Therefore, it is advised to avoid using wood from Cerbera species due to their toxicity, and as their smoke may cause lethal poisoning. The genus is related to '' Cerberiopsis'',Potgieter, K., and V. A. Albert. (2001) Phylogenetic Relationships within Apocynaceae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerbera
''Cerbera'' is a genus of evergreen small trees or shrubs, native to tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar, and various islands in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Three trees of this genus are mangroves, '' Cerbera floribunda'', '' Cerbera manghas'' and '' Cerbera odollam''. The leaves are alternate and lack interpetiolar stipules. The tubular corollas are actinomorphic, i.e. they are symmetric and can be divided in halves along any diameter. All trees contain a white latex. The fruits are drupes. The genus is named after Cerberus because all its parts are poisonous : they contain cerberin, a cardiac glycoside, a substance that blocks electric impulses in the body (including the beating of the heart). Therefore, it is advised to avoid using wood from Cerbera species due to their toxicity, and as their smoke may cause lethal poisoning. The genus is related to '' Cerberiopsis'',Potgieter, K., and V. A. Albert. (2001) Phylogenetic Relationships within Apocynaceae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerbera Laeta
''Cerbera'' is a genus of evergreen small trees or shrubs, native to tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar, and various islands in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Three trees of this genus are mangroves, ''Cerbera floribunda'', ''Cerbera manghas'' and ''Cerbera odollam''. The leaves are alternate and lack interpetiolar stipules. The tubular corollas are actinomorphic, i.e. they are symmetric and can be divided in halves along any diameter. All trees contain a white latex. The fruits are drupes. The genus is named after Cerberus because all its parts are poisonous : they contain cerberin, a cardiac glycoside, a substance that blocks electric impulses in the body (including the beating of the heart). Therefore, it is advised to avoid using wood from Cerbera species due to their toxicity, and as their smoke may cause lethal poisoning. The genus is related to ''Cerberiopsis'',Potgieter, K., and V. A. Albert. (2001) Phylogenetic Relationships within Apocynaceae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerbera Dumicola
''Cerbera'' is a genus of evergreen small trees or shrubs, native to tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar, and various islands in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Three trees of this genus are mangroves, ''Cerbera floribunda'', ''Cerbera manghas'' and ''Cerbera odollam''. The leaves are alternate and lack interpetiolar stipules. The tubular corollas are actinomorphic, i.e. they are symmetric and can be divided in halves along any diameter. All trees contain a white latex. The fruits are drupes. The genus is named after Cerberus because all its parts are poisonous : they contain cerberin, a cardiac glycoside, a substance that blocks electric impulses in the body (including the beating of the heart). Therefore, it is advised to avoid using wood from Cerbera species due to their toxicity, and as their smoke may cause lethal poisoning. The genus is related to ''Cerberiopsis'',Potgieter, K., and V. A. Albert. (2001) Phylogenetic Relationships within Apocynaceae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerbera Inflata
''Cerbera inflata'', commonly known as the cassowary plum, grey milkwood, Joojooga, or rubber tree, is a plant in the family Apocynaceae endemic to north east Queensland, specifically the Atherton Tablelands and adjacent areas. Description The cassowary plum is a tree up to in height with a grey fissured trunk. Leaves are glabrous (smooth), lanceolate, dull green above and paler below, and crowded towards the end of the twigs. They measure from long and wide with 33 to 37 lateral veins. All parts of the tree produces a copious milky sap when cut. The inflorescence is a much branched cyme up to with usually more than 50 flowers. The flowers have 5 white sepals, a long corolla tube about in length by wide with 5 free lobes at the end. They are white with a cream or green centre, are about in diameter, and have a sweet scent. Fruits are a bright blue/purple drupe measuring about long by wide, slightly pointed and the end away from the pedicel (stem), with a single la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerbera Manghas
''Cerbera manghas'', the sea mango, is a small evergreen coastal tree growing up to tall. It is native to coastal areas in Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific islands. It is classified as one of the three species in the genus Cerbera that constitute as mangroves. Description The shiny dark-green leaves grow in a spiral arrangement, and are ovoid in shape. The flowers are fragrant, possessing a white tubular five-lobed corolla about in diameter, with a pink to red throat. They have five stamens and the ovary is positioned above the other flower parts. The fruits are egg-shaped, long. At maturity they turn bright red. Toxicity The leaves and the fruits contain the potent cardiac glycoside cerberin, which is extremely poisonous if ingested. This was utilised in trials of ordeal done towards criminal suspects in the Merina Kingdom ruling the island of Madagascar until the practice was abolished during Radama II's reign. On the opposite spectrum, Fijians use its (''vasa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerbera Floribunda
''Cerbera floribunda'', commonly known as cassowary plum, grey milkwood, or rubber tree, is a plant in the family Apocynaceae which is native to the region from Sulawesi to the Solomon Islands, including north east Queensland. Description ''Cerbera floribunda'' is a tree that grows up to in height. The bark is brown to grey/black, and the sap wood and heart wood are both white. Leaves are lanceolate-elliptic, glossy green above and paler beneath, alternate or whorled and crowded towards the ends of the twigs. They measure up to long by wide, with 13 to 20 curved lateral veins and are attached by a long petiole up to long. The inflorescence is a much branched cyme up to with usually more than 50 flowers. The flowers have 5 white sepals, a corolla tube up to by wide with 5 free lobes at the end. They are white with a pink or red centre, are about in diameter, and have a sweet scent. Fruits are a bright blue/purple drupe measuring about long by wide, slightly poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerbera Odollam
''Cerbera odollam'' is a tree species in the family Apocynaceae commonly known as the ''suicide tree'', ''pong-pong'', ''mintolla'', and ''othalam.'' It bears a fruit known as ''othalanga (Malayalam: ഒതളങ്ങ)'' that yields a potent poison that has been used for suicide and murder. It is native to South Asia, South and Southeast Asia and to Queensland, Australia, growing preferentially in coastal salt swamps and in marshy areas but also grown as a hedge plant between home compounds. Common names ''Cerbera odollam'' is known by a number of vernacular names, depending on the region. These include ''othalam (ഒതളം)'' in the Malayalam language used in Kerala, India; ''kattu arali (காட்டரளி)'' in the adjacent state of Tamil Nadu; ''ডাবুর (Dabur)'' in Bengali; ''famentana'', ''kisopo'', ''samanta'' or ''tangena'' in Madagascar; and ''pong-pong'', ''buta-buta'', ''bintaro'' or ''nyan'' in Southeast Asia.Gaillard Y, Krishnamoorthy A, Bevalot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerberin
Cerberin is a type of cardiac glycoside, a steroidal class found in the seeds of the dicotyledonous angiosperm genus ''Cerbera''; including the suicide tree (''Cerbera odollam'') and the sea mango (''Cerbera manghas''). This class includes digitalis-like agents, channel-blockers that as a group have found historic uses as cardiac treatments, but which at higher doses are extremely toxic; in the case of cerberin, consumption of the ''C. odollam'' results in poisoning with presenting nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, often leading to death. The natural product has been structurally characterized, its toxicity is clear—it is often used as an intentional human poison in third-world countries, and accidental poisonings with fatalities have resulted from individuals even indirectly consuming the agent—but its potentially therapeutic pharmacologic properties are very poorly described. Structure and synonyms Cerberin, like all cardiac glycosides, has as its core a steroid-ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerbera Dilatata
''Cerbera dilatata'' (Chamorro: chi'ute) is a species of tree in the family Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of ... endemic to the Mariana Islands. Description This species has dark foliage and hairy flowers that are white and pinkish in the center. Its leaves are crowded near the ends of its branches. It has ovular fruit that are often coupled and speckled green. Gallery File:Cerbera dilatata bark.jpg, Bark File:Cerbera odollam fruits.jpg, Fruit File:Cerbera odollam roots.jpg, Roots References dilatata Flora of the Mariana Islands {{Apocynaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ochrosia Oppositifolia
''Ochrosia oppositifolia'' grows as a small to medium-sized tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . Its flowers feature a creamy to white corolla. Its habitat is coastal forest, bush or open areas to altitude, rarely inland. Local medicinal uses include as a carminative and in high doses as an abortifacient. ''Ochrosia oppositifolia'' is native to regions from the Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, ... through tropical Asia to the Pacific. Oppositines are vasorelaxant beta-carbolines isolated from ''Ochrosia oppositifolia''. References oppositifolia Plants used in traditional African medicine Chagos Archipelago Trees of Seychelles Trees of Indo-China Trees of Malesia Trees of Papuasia Trees of the Pacific Plants described in 1783 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craspidospermum Verticillatum
''Craspidospermum'' is a monotypic genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae endemic to Madagascar. the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families recognises the single species ''Craspidospermum verticillatum'' (Malagasy: Vandrika).Search for "Craspidospermum", Description ''Craspidospermum verticillatum'' grows as a tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . Its flowers feature a white or pale pink corolla, with pink or dark red throat. Range and habitat ''Craspidospermum verticillatum'' ranges across the east, southeast, and center of Madagascar. Its natural habitat is humid and subhumid lowland rainforest and montane forest, and sometimes rocky areas, from sea-level to elevation. The tree is widespread in the island's humid and subhumid forests. It is threatened with habitat loss from deforestation for timber, firewood, and to clear land for agriculture and mining, and its population is declining. Uses Local medicinal uses include as a treatment for pulmonary di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerberiopsis
''Cerberiopsis'' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1873. The entire group is endemic to New Caledonia ) , anthem = "" , image_map = New Caledonia on the globe (small islands magnified) (Polynesia centered).svg , map_alt = Location of New Caledonia , map_caption = Location of New Caledonia , mapsize = 290px , subdivision_type = Sovereign st .... The genus is related to '' Cerbera''.Potgieter, K., and V. A. Albert. (2001) Phylogenetic Relationships within Apocynaceae S.l. Based on trnL Intron and trnL-F Spacer Sequences and Propagule Characters.” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88 (4): 523–49. List of species # '' Cerberiopsis candelabra'' Vieill. ex Pancher & Sebert # '' Cerberiopsis neriifolia'' (S. Moore) Boiteau # '' Cerberiopsis obtusifolia'' (Van Heurck & F. Muell.) Boiteau References Apocynaceae genera Endemic flora of New Caledonia Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Apocynaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
