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

Rakta arka in India is the name of a plant defined with Calotropis procera in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Apocynum syriacum S.G. Gmel. (among others).

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

· Contributions to the Botany of India (1834)
· Hortus Kewensis (1811)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1918)
· A Numerical List of Dried Specimens (8217)
· Hortus Kewensis (1789)

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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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