Snake flower: 1 definition

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

1) Snake flower in English is the name of a plant defined with Bulbine frutescens in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Anthericum rostratum Jacq. (among others).

2) Snake flower is also identified with Bulbine narcissifolia It has the synonym Phalangium narcissifolium (Salm-Dyck) Kuntze (etc.).

3) Snake flower is also identified with Echium vulgare.

4) Snake flower is also identified with Scadoxus puniceus It has the synonym Haemanthus insignis Hook. (etc.).

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

· Journal of Natural Products
· Plant Systematics and Evolution (1980)
· Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1943)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Taxon (1979)
· Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (1992)

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