Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Mtowo in East Africa is the name of a plant defined with Strophanthus eminii in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Strophanthus wittei Staner (among others).

2) Mtowo in Tanzania is also identified with Azanza garckeana It has the synonym Thespesia triloba Hoffm.) (species named after the German botanist Christian August Friedrich Garcke, 1819–1904, author of Flora von Halle… 2 vols. Berlin 1848, 1856) (Shantzia Lewton, Malvaceae, for the American botanist Homer LeRoy (Leroy) Shantz, 1876–1958, traveller (Africa) and plant collector (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1892)
· Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora von Central-OstAfrika (1889)
· Helvetica Chimica Acta (1950)
· Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1928)
· Helvetica Chimica Acta (2110)
· Contrib. Conhec. da Flora de Moçambique (1954)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Mtowo, for example pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, chemical composition, side effects, extract dosage, health benefits, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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