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Bushman's hat
Hoodia gordonii
About
Hoodia gordonii, also known as Bushman's hat, is a leafless spiny succulent plant supposed to have therapeutic properties in folk medicine. It grows naturally in Botswana, South Africa and Namibia. The species became internationally known and threatened by collectors, after a marketing campaign falsely claimed that it was an appetite suppressant for weight loss. The flowers smell like rotten meat and are pollinated mainly by flies. The indigenous San people of the Namib desert call this plant ǁhoba.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Hoodia gordonii
- Slug
- hoodia-gordonii
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Hoodia
- Species
- gordonii
- Wikidata QID
- Q149296
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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