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Alternative spelling of Aaron's beard cactus [Opuntia leucotricha, a type of cactus similar to prickly pear.]
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The puttyroot (Aplectrum hyemale).
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Osteospermum (African daisy bush)
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The plant Strychnos icaja, traditionally used as an ordeal poison in West Africa.
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An ornamental evergreen tree native from East Africa and India through the South Pacific, Calophyllum inophyllum, which has strong wood and seeds containing a useful oil.
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Brabejum stellatifolium or bitter almond, in family Proteaceae
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The musk mallow plant (Abelmoschus moschatus).
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Mercurialis annua, a spurge native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East and invasive elsewhere.
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The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.
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A tree native to India and used in ayurvedic medicine, Terminalia arjuna
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Any of the trees of genera Schinus and Astronium.
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Any of several decorative evergreen shrubs of the genus Aucuba.
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A yucca native to deserts of the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Yucca baccata
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A succulent plant native to South Africa (Cotyledon tomentosa).
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Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liana; in the Philippines, especially any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.
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(New Zealand) The burrs of the piri-piri plant.
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The plant Heliconia bihai.
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Trachyspermum ammi (ajwain), of which the flower pods and leaves are used as a spice and herb in parts of Asia and Africa.
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The rubiaceous shrub Chiococca alba, of the same region.
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Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.
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(Australia) The subspecies Chrysanthemoides monilifera subsp. monilifera (the subspecies Chrysanthemoides monilifera subsp. rotundata being known there as bitou bush)
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(countable) A species of tree (Fouquieria columnaris) native to Baja California, Mexico.
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The plant Hebanthe eriantha.
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A small southern African shrub (Coleonema pulchellum) with small leathery leaves and white or pink flowers that is cultivated in California.
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A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.
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Alternative form of bully tree [Sideroxylon spp.]
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A plant, Ceratotheca sesamoides, placed among the Pedaliaceae (pedalium family or sesame family).
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The flowering plant Myrocarpus frondosus.
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Featuring a cactus or cacti.
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A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
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Pithecellobium dulce, a fabaceous flowering plant.
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(Philippines) garden balsam (Impatiens balsamina)
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A legume native to Southern Africa that grows red flowers and bloated pods, often used in folk medicine; Lessertia frutescens (formerly Sutherlandia frutescens).
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Several species of Euphorbia, including Euphorbia ingens, Euphorbia candelabrum, Euphorbia ammak, Euphorbia cooperi, Euphorbia lacti, and Euphorbia andtiquorum.
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Senna alata, of the family Fabaceae, native to Mexico.
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Any of several similar South American bromeliad plants, Bromelia serra, Bromelia pinguin or Bromelia balansae (formerly Bromelia argentina), which yield a long, silky fiber used for making cords, sacks, etc.
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(pharmacology) A purgative made from the dried bark of an American buckthorn.
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A plant, Cerbera floribunda, which uses cassowaries to spread its seeds.
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Any of the genus Ceanothus of North American buckthorns.
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Any tree of the genus Cecropia.
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A large, woody vine native to Mexico, but grown throughout the tropics for its edible fruit, Monstera deliciosa, and also grown indoors as an ornamental under the name of Swiss cheese plant.
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The tree Glochidion ferdinandi.
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A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
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Argemone munita, a species of prickly poppy native to California.
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A Mexican spurge (Jatropha tepiquensis)
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A South African perennial plant (Ornithogalum thyrsoides).
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A kind of felwort, Swertia chirata (syn. Agathotes chirayta), found in northern India, esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
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The Chinese artichoke or crosne, Stachys affinis or S. sieboldii, an herbaceous plant of the family Lamiaceae.
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Senna bicapsularis, a legume species from northern South America.
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(US Southwest and Northern Mexico) A wild plant related to lovage, Ligusticum porteri, which is used in traditional medicine.
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Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
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A plant, Chuquiragua insignis.
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Ficus racemosa, a species of plant native to India, southeast Asia, and Australia.
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A type of edible seaweed (Durvillaea antarctica)
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A plant of Central and South America, of the cactus family, cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
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The plant Saponaria americana.
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Acalypha wilkesiana, a shrub with shiny bronze-green leaves and small green flowers.
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Soleirolia soleirolii, a plant in the nettle family.
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A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico, with poisonous berries.
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Alternative form of curare [a plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content]
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A shrub or small tree, Decaisnea insignis, with edible fingerlike pods;
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(botany) an Australian plant in the genus Swainsona, distinctive for its blood red leaf-like flowers
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The plant Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue, catgut).
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The bean of Archidendron pauciflorum that contains the toxin djenkolic acid
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Argyreia nervosa, a perennial climbing vine native to the Indian subcontinent.
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The plant Adenia pechuelii.
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Lyonia lucida (shiny lyonia)
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A plant of the Nama genus, especially Nama jamaicense.
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Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.
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Alternative form of five finger [Pseudopanax arboreus, a New Zealand tree with compound leaves with five to seven 'fingers' and thick, leathery leaves with large teeth. A small, many-branched, round-headed tree with thick, brittle, spreading branches.]
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The flowering plant Brugmansia arborea.
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Wodyetia bifurcata, foxtail palm.
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A flowering plant, Petasites japonicus, native to Asia; giant butterbur.
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Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.
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The willow-leaved justicia (Justicia gendarussa).
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(South Africa) Dichapetalum cymosum, a poisonous plant.
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(South Africa) Any of various plants in the family Rubiaceae.
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A type of shrub (Colubrina arborescens) native to Florida and the Caribbean.
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Any of various vine-like climbing plants of Central and South America and the West Indies, including Mikania and Aristolochia species, reputed to have curative powers.
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The American bromeliad Hechtia glomerata.
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(Philippines) Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)
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A low plant native to the Americas, Chaptalia nutans
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The plant Angelica archangelica.
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Prosopis glandulosa, a thorny shrub or tree in the legume family Fabaceae.
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The fabaceous flowering plant Pithecellobium dulce.
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The needle bush or sweet acacia (Vachellia farnesiana), a thorny tree of the genus Vachellia, native to Mexico and Central America.
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cypress vine, Ipomoea quamoclit
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Synonym of cluster fig (Ficus racemosa, a species of plant in the family Moraceae)
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Synonym of ashwagandha (“the plant Withania somnifera”)
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Houstonia purpurea (syn. Hedyotis umbellata), chay, chay-root
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The plant Suaeda torreyana.
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Any South-American plant of the genus Iochroma
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A cathartic drug consisting of the tuberous roots of Ipomoea purga, a convolvulaceous plant found in Mexico.
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The convolvulaceous plant Ipomoea purga, whose roots are used to make the drug jalap.
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a species of spindle native to Japan, Korea and China; Euonymus japonicus
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Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas.
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Phlomis fruticosa, a lamiaceous flowering plant with yellow tubular flowers and aromatic leaves.
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The flowering plant Sideroxylon foetidissimum.
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(chiefly attributive) Epiphyllum strictum or Epiphyllum selenicereus, a flower that blooms at night, believed to have an association with the nāga world.
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Caroxylon aphyllum, a shrub.
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Carissa carandas, a species of flowering shrub in the dogbane family Apocynaceae.
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Carissa carandas, a flowering shrub in the family Apocynaceae.
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The edible, wind-pollinated flowering plant Pringlea antiscorbutica..
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A foul-smelling plant grown in Asia, Amorphophallus konjac.
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An anise-scented Asian perennial herb, Agastache rugosa.
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An Ethiopian rosaceous tree whose flowers were used as a vermifuge, Hagenia abyssinica.
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Rafflesia arnoldii, a plant with very large flowers.
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An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montans var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States.
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The tree Holarrhena pubescens.
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Any of three rhododendron species (Rhododendron tomentosum, Rhododendron groenlandicum, or Rhododendron neoglandulosum).
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Aponogeton spp., esp. Aponogeton madagascariensis
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A flowering plant in the mallow family, commonly grown for its edible leaves, Abelmoschus manihot.
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Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit.
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The Andean medicinal herb Lepidium meyenii, or an extract of the root of this plant.
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Hampea reynae, a plant endemic to El Salvador.
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Basella alba; an Asian leaf vegetable.
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Jasmine Jasminum Zambac (both the plant and the flower.
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(Kenya) African nightshade
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Plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
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Mirabilis jalapa, an ornamental flowering plant from the Americas, used until the 19ᵗʰ century also medicinally.
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African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae)
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Any of the genus Melocactus of cacti, distinguished when mature by their cephalium, a wool- and bristle-coated structure at the apex, containing a mass of areoles from which the small flowers grow.
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A genus (Dermatophyllum, syn Calia) of shrubs or small trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to southwestern North America from western Texas to New Mexico and Arizona in the United States, and south through Chihuahua, Coahuila and Nuevo León in northern Mexico.
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A shrubby sage native to central and eastern Mexico, Salvia leucantha, grown in subtropical, dry climates for its ornamental flower stems covered in bright blue or purple velvety hairs, and for its relative drought tolerance.
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Dysphania ambrosioides, formerly Chenopodium ambrosioides
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(botany) A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers.
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The plant Aconitum chasmanthum.
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The jade plant, Crassula ovata.
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Senna petersiana (dwarf cassia)
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Any other plant used in moxibustion.
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The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
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Nardostachys jatamansi (nard)
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A large shrub or small tree of subtropical and tropical areas of the Americas, Byrsonima crassifolia, bearing a small, sweet, yellow fruit.
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The nandina or heavenly bamboo.
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(South Africa) A spiny shrub, Acanthosicyos horridus, growing in Namibia and the Kalahari Desert, or the melon-like fruit that it produces.
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Marsilea drummondii, a four-leaved aquatic fern native to Australia the sporocarps of which are processed for food.
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Eremophila maculata (spotted emubush)
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Any of many species of tropical flowering plants of the genus Scaevola.
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Any of a number of mammiform cacti of the genus Mammillaria.
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(archaic) The sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica), the leaves of which fold inwards and droop when shaken or touched.
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A tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.
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Richea pandanifolia, an ericaceous flowering plant.
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A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for its psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.
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A plant in the genus Phormium, New Zealand flax.
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(South Africa) The plant Kalanchoe thyrsiflora.
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Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
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Alternative form of prickly pear, various plants of the genus Opuntia. [Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.]
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A large tropical vine with red flowers (Combretum indicum), native to India and Southeast Asia, where it has been widely used in traditional medicine.
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Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
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rooibos (shrub of genus Aspalathus)
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Myrothamnus flabellifolius, a plant species native to Southern Africa
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A Madagascan plant, Gunnera perpensa.
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Any plant of the genus Silphium.
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Any of the genus Roystonea of palm trees, native to the Caribbean Islands and the adjacent coasts of Florida and Central and South America, but grown throughout the tropics and subtropics for its great height and elegant form
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Any palm of the genus Sabal of American dwarf fan palms; usually called palmetto.
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Plukenetia volubilis, a euphorbiaceous perennial plant endemic to the Amazon rainforest in Peru.
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Nelumbo nucifera, native in temperate and subtropical Asia, from India to Japan.
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Carnegiea gigantea, a large cactus native to the Sonoran Desert and characterized by its "arms".
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Alternative spelling of saguaro [Carnegiea gigantea, a large cactus native to the Sonoran Desert and characterized by its "arms".]
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The berry saltbush or red berry saltbush (Chenopodium hastatum, syn. Einadia hastata and Rhagodia hastata), a small plant found in coastal and inland areas of eastern Australia.
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Tamarix ramosissima, an tamarisk plant native to Eurasia, considered invasive in the Southwest United States.
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Borrichia arborescens of the West Indies.
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Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana (formerly Phytolacca decandra).
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in the southwestern United States:
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A desert shrub with long, pointed leaves and white flowers native to southwestern North America from southern Arizona to western Texas and northern Mexico, Yucca elata, used by American Indians for soap, due to its high saponin content, and fiber.
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The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
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Nyssa aquatica (water tupelo)
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The flowering plant Lantana camara.
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The plant Varronia cylindrostachya (syn. Cordia cylindrostachya).
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A large woody vine, Monstera deliciosa, grown indoors for its distinctive foliage, which is riddled with holes like Swiss cheese, and which is also grown commercially in the tropics for its edible fruit.
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Cytisus proliferus, a small evergreen tree commonly used to improve the condition of soils used for farming.
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(archaic) gambier (Uncaria gambir)
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Any of various species of myrtalean trees of the genus Tibouchina, native to tropical America, many of which are used as garden ornamentals.
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Alternative form of toluache [Any of various poisonous plants of the genus Datura.]
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A small tree, Prosopis pubescens, native to Mexico and parts of the United States that has spirally twisted pods; the screwbean
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The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
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The plant Nyctanthes arbor-tristis.
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Any tree of genus Handroanthus
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Ziziphus mucronata (buffalo thorn, Cape thorn)
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Any of several species of plants in the genus Telopea, native to southeastern Australia.
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Synonym of weeping fig (“the tree Ficus benjamina”).
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A species of ornamental tree also grown in containers indoors, Ficus benjamina.
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Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa.
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Any of over forty Asian grasses of the genus Phyllostachys, a genus of bamboos, hardy evergreen plants from Japan, China and the Himalayas with woody stems sometimes used to make canes and umbrella handles.
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Trochodendron aralioides, a tree or large shrub native to Japan, Taiwan, and southern Korea.
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The plant Ayapana triplinervis, native to the tropical Americas.
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Lepidium draba, a perennial herb that reproduces by seeds and by horizontal creeping roots.
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Sterculia foetida, native to the Old World tropics
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Siphonochilus aethiopicus
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The flowering plant Asclepias curassavica.
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Bontia daphnoides (family Scrophulariaceae; bastard olive)
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The arrow arum (Peltandra virginica), which has an edible root.
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Hawaiian baby woodrose (Argyreia nervosa).
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A species of prickly pear cactus, Opuntia matudae, native to Central Mexico.
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(US) Baptisia tinctoria, of tribe Thermopsideae: subfamily Faboideae.
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The plant Calotropis gigantea.
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Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
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