Cultivated
A medium-sized deciduous tree . Stems and branches irregular ; trunk short , thick with dense , hard , white , wood . Leaves opposite , simple , orbicular to ovate , 5-nerved , glabrous . Inflorescences many-flowered terminal cymes . Flowers small , white or pale green , funnel shape ; calyx 5-lobed , pubescent , small , c . 2 mm ; corolla 5-lobes , corolla tube cylindrical , greenish white inside , slightly hairy near the base ; stamens 5 ; filaments short . Fruit berry , smooth , thick shelled , orange-red when ripe . Seeds flat , compressed , covered with fine grey hairs . (Ref . https://Vikaspedia . in)
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Strychnos ovalifolia Stokes
Strychnos spireana Dop
Strychnos vomica St.-Lag.
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Strychnine
Strychnine Tree
Nux Vomica
Poison Fruit
Semen Strychnos
Quaker Buttons
Poison Nut
Snake Wood
Ghazanfar (2015) wrote that: "Cultivated in Dhofar for the seeds that have been used in traditional medicine". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.3). However, reported that the seeds are the major source of the highly poisonous, intensely bitter alkaloids strychine and brucine. (Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org).
*https://Vikaspedia.in *Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5.
