Hard milkwood: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Hard milkwood in English is the name of a plant defined with Alstonia macrophylla in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Alstonia oblongifolia Merr. (among others).
2) Hard milkwood is also identified with Alstonia spectabilis It has the synonym Blaberopus villosa var. petiolata Miq. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (1811)
· On the Asclepiadeae (1810)
· Contraception (2005)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2001)
· Descr. Notes Papuan Pl. (1877)
· Austral. Syst. Bot. (1992)
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