Physostigma venenosum: Calabar Bean
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Description: Information from Botanical.com on this poisonous plant, its description, constituents, medicinal action and uses.
Click on graphic for larger image Botanical: Physostigma venenosum (EALF.) West Africa, Old Calabar. Has been introduced into India and Brazil. The plant came into notice in 1846 and was planted in the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, where it grew into a strong perennial creeper. It is a great twining climber, pinnately trifoliate leaves, pendulous racemes of purplish bean-like flowers; seeds are two or three together in dark brown pods about 6 inches long and kidney-shaped thick, about 1 inch long, rounded ends, roughish but a little polished, and have a long scar on the edge where adherent to the placenta. The seeds ripen at all seasons, but are best and most abundant during the rainy season in Africa, June till September. The natives of Africa employ the bean as an ordeal owing to its very poisonous qualities. They call it
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