Logania
logania
(ləʊˈɡeɪnɪə)| Noun | 1. | Logania - type genus of the Loganiaceae; Australian and New Zealand shrubs sometimes cultivated for their flowers |
| 单词 | logania | |||
| 释义 | Loganialogania(ləʊˈɡeɪnɪə)
loganialogania(lōgā`nēə), common name for the Loganiaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees of warmer climates, including many woody climbing species. Some plants of this family are grown in the United States as ornamentals, and several are sources of medicines and poisons. The former include introduced species of Logania (native to New Zealand and Australia) and several species of buddleia, or butterfly bush (genus Buddleia, sometimes considered a separate family). Two species of buddleia are native to Arizona and California. Carolina yellow jessamine, or jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), also called false jasmine, is the state flower of South Carolina. It is often grown as a porch vine in the South, and its dried roots were used medicinally as an antispasmodic and sedative. The strong poison strychninestrychnine, bitter alkaloid drug derived from the seeds of a tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, native to Sri Lanka, Australia, and India. It has been used as a rat poison for five centuries, and rat biscuits still remain a cause of accidental poisoning in humans. ..... Click the link for more information. , which also affects the central nervous system, comes from the seeds of several Strychnos species (nux-vomica native to S Asia, is the commercial source). Several tropical American species are ingredients of curarecurare , any of a variety of substances originally used as arrow poisons by Native South Americans in hunting and in warfare. The main active substance of curare, tubocurarine, is an alkaloid extracted from Chondodendron tomentosum, Strychnos toxifera, ..... Click the link for more information. arrow poisons, which have yielded important medicines. Logania is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem). ..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Gentianales. Logania
Synonyms for Logania
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