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Rauvolfia vomitoria
About
Rauvolfia vomitoria, the poison devil's-pepper, is a plant species in the genus Rauvolfia. It is native from Senegal east to Sudan and Tanzania, south to Angola; and naturalized in China, Bangladesh, different ranges of Himalayan and Puerto Rico. The plant contains a number of compounds of interest to the pharmaceutical industry and is widely used in traditional medicine.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Rauvolfia vomitoria
- Slug
- rauvolfia-vomitoria
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Rauvolfia
- Species
- vomitoria
- Wikidata QID
- Q5225969
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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