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Physostigma venenosum
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Physostigma venenosum, the Calabar bean or ordeal bean, is a species of leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae, endemic to tropical Africa, with a seed poisonous to humans. It derives the first part of its scientific name from a curious beak-like appendage at the end of the stigma, in the centre of the flower; this appendage, though solid, was originally believed to be hollow.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Physostigma venenosum
- Slug
- physostigma-venenosum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Physostigma
- Species
- venenosum
- Wikidata QID
- Q1721924
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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