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'''''Strychnos''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s, belonging to [[family (biology)|family]] [[Loganiaceae]] (sometimes Strychnaceae). The genus includes about 190 [[species]] of [[tree]]s and [[liana]]s, distributed around the world's tropics.
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Strychnos (an old Greek name used by Theophrastus for some plants belonging to Solanaceae). Loganiaceae. Scandent shrubs with short tendrils, or trees, of economic importance: some of the species have been introduced into the southern United States.
 
Strychnos (an old Greek name used by Theophrastus for some plants belonging to Solanaceae). Loganiaceae. Scandent shrubs with short tendrils, or trees, of economic importance: some of the species have been introduced into the southern United States.
  
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*''[[Strychnos arborea]]''
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*''[[Strychnos decussata]]''
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*''[[Strychnos ignatia]]'' ("St. Ignatius bean"), is a closely related Asian shrub/tree.
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*''Strychnos nux-vomica'' ([[Strychnine tree]]), native to tropical [[Asia]], is the source of the [[poison]] [[strychnine]].
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* The ripe seeds of ''[[Strychnos potatorum]],''[http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/600/610/614/solar-water/unesco/35-46.html][http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr192005/cbytes165242005417.asp], known as Therran or Nirmal,[http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/n/nuxvom08.html]<!--are these different names for the same plant?--> can be ground and used as a [[coagulant]] to [[water purification|purify water]]; or they may be rubbed against the inside walls of the earthenware water containers.
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*''[[Strychnos spinosa]]'' (Lam.), commonly known as the Natal orange and ''[[Strychnos pungens]]'', from [[Southern Africa]]; which are drought-tolerant and produce edible fruits.
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*''[[Strychnos toxifera]]'' is one of the 2 plant sources of the poison [[curare]].
  
 
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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Strychnos is a genus of flowering plants, belonging to family Loganiaceae (sometimes Strychnaceae). The genus includes about 190 species of trees and lianas, distributed around the world's tropics.


Read about Strychnos in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Strychnos (an old Greek name used by Theophrastus for some plants belonging to Solanaceae). Loganiaceae. Scandent shrubs with short tendrils, or trees, of economic importance: some of the species have been introduced into the southern United States.

Leaves opposite, in scandent species some axils bear short clavate tendrils, the adjacent lf. being often suppressed: cymes terminal or lateral; bracts small: fls. white to yellowish; calyx 5-4-lobed; corolla 5-4-cleft, tube short or long or hardly any, lobes valvate; stamens 5; ovary 2-celled (or 1-celled above): berry globose or oblong. — About 220 species, tropics of both hemispheres.

S. Schumanniana, Gilg (S. Schumanni, Hort.). Tree, 12-22 ft. high with axillary recurved spines: lvs. decussate, elliptical, gray-pilose on both surfaces: cymes terminal on the gray branches, many-fld.: calyx gray-hirsute, lobes linear; corolla-lobes deltoid-ovoid: fr. edible. Trop. Afr. Reported as intro. into S. Calif. but not successful. — S. Volkensii, Gilg. Tree, 30-40 ft. high: branchlets armed at the nodes with curved pungent spines: lvs. oblong or oblong-ovate, glabrous: cymes lax, many-fld., from the tip of the branches; sepals ovate; corolla-lobes ovate: fr. shaped like an orange, edible. Trop. Afr. Reported as intro. into S. Calif. but not successful. CH


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