Old-man-cactus: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Old-man-cactus in North America is the name of a plant defined with Pachycereus schottii in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pilocereus schottii (Engelmann) Lemaire (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
· Ecology (1980)
· Botanical Gazette, or ‘Paper of Botanical Notes’ (1988)
· Ecology (1967)
· Contributions from the United States National Herbarium (1909)
· Cact. Succ. J. (1963)
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