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• Toddalia lanceolata
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...male fls. exserted: fr. the size of a pea, 4-lobed, fleshy, gland-dotted. Mauritius, Mozambique, Cape.—Intro. by Reasoner Bros., 1891.
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• Trochetia blackburniana
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...petals obliquely obovate-rotundate, white, rose-veined, margins blood-red. Mauritius. B.M. 7209. G.C. III. 36:112.
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• Colvillea
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...of Mauritius). Leguminosae. Showy - flowered tropical tree, a worthy rival of the royal poinciana, which is closely allied, but easily distinguished, esp
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• Crinum augustum
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...h; segms. lanceolate, 4—5 in. long; filaments half length of Begins., red. Mauritius, Seychelles. B.M. 2397. B.R. 679. — Warmhouse; effective.
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• Dombeya acutangula
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...h by the staminodia; ovary densely tomentose, and styles free at top only. Mauritius and Bourbon. B.M. 2905 (form with entire lvs.).
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• Trochetia
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...any ovules: caps. loculicidally 5-valved.—About 6 or 7 species, natives of Mauritius, St. Helena, and Mascarene Isls.
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• Dracaena umbraculifera
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...d: perianth large, 2 in. long, white, tinged with red; filaments filiform. Mauritius. L.B.C. 3:289.
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• Ochrosia
  '''''Ochrosia''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]] in the [[Asclepias|milkweed]] family, [[Apocynaceae]]. ...rolla salver- form, the tube cylindrical and dilated at point of insertion of stamens, the throat constricted and glabrous; disk small or wanting: carpel
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• Crinum Careyanum
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...broad, lightly red-tinged at center; stamens a little shorter than segms. Mauritius and Seychelles. B.M. 2466.—Autumn; greenhouse.
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• Agave vera-cruz
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...lue aloe, extensively planted and more or less established in Amoy, India, Mauritius and Peru, and, as A. mexicana, in Italy. It has been hybridized with A. sis
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• Protium
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...ies, mostly natives of Trop. S. Amer., some species also in India, Malaya, Mauritius, Madagascar, W. Indies, and Mex. P. serratum, Engl. (Bursera serrata, Wall.
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• Poivrea
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...nut" in Cape Colony. P. comosa, Sweet. A large climber with great panicles of blood-red fls.: fr. short-stalked, notched at both ends. Trop. Afr. B.R. 11
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• Listrostachys
  ...hys (Greek, shovel or hoe, and spike). Orchidaceae. Orchids with the habit of Angraecum. ...many-flowered; sepals and petals alike, spreading; lip adnate to the foot of the column, with a long thin or reflexed spur; column bent back against the
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• Typhonodorum lindleyanum
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...2 in. across, flattened-orbicular, edible.—A striking plant with the habit of Zantedeschia, growing in deep water.
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• Tridax
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...inate.—About 27 species, Trop. Amer.; one species also occurs in India and Mauritius. Two species have been cult. occasionally. T. coronopifolia, Hemsl. About 1
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• Furcraea gigantea
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...erranean hemp, Mauritius hemp, taretra, green aloe, or pita, intro. by way of Madagascar and hence called Malgache aloe. Varies with moderate toothing, V
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• Annona
  ...(Latin, year's harvest, suggested by the Haitian name anon applied to one of the species. Commonly spelled Anona, but Linnaeus used the double n). Annon ...., but a few from Afr., and several now widely cult. in the warmer regions of both hemispheres.
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• Bauhinia
  ...species of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[subfamily]] [[Caesalpinioideae]] of the large [[flowering plant]] family [[Fabaceae]], with a [[pantropical]] d Bauhinia trees typically reach a height of 6-12 m and their branches spread 3-6 m outwards. The lobed leaves usually a
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• Asplenium
  ...[Hymenasplenium]]'' separate, based on [[molecular phylogenetic]] analysis of [[DNA sequence]]s. The [[type species]] for the genus is ''[[Asplenium mari ...[[hybrid (biology)|hybrid]]s with other ''Asplenium'' species and because of this are usually included in a more broadly defined ''Asplenium''.
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• Vanilla
  ...illa''''', the '''vanilla orchids''', form a [[flowering plant]] [[genus]] of about 110 [[species]] in the orchid [[family (biology)|family]] ([[Orchidac ...ame from the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] word "vainilla", diminutive form of "vaina" (meaning "[[sheath]]"), which is in turn derived from [[Latin]] "[[
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