Wild medlar: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Wild medlar in English is the name of a plant defined with Vangueria infausta in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Canthium infaustum Baill. (among others).
2) Wild medlar is also identified with Vangueria madagascariensis It has the synonym Vavanga edulis Vahl, nom. illeg. (etc.).
3) Wild medlar is also identified with Vangueria volkensii It has the synonym Theodore W. Bossert, Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection 421. Boston, Mass. 1972 (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Trav. S. Africa (1824)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1878)
· Supplementum Carpologiae (1805)
· Plant Systematics and Evolution (2002)
· Kew Bulletin (1968)
· Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas (1895)
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Partial matches: Medlar.
Ends with: Common wild medlar, False wild medlar, Large wild medlar, Rhodesian wild medlar, Small wild medlar, Tangle-flowered wild medlar, Zimbabwe wild medlar.
Full-text: Large wild medlar, Tangle-flowered wild medlar, Rhodesian wild medlar, False wild medlar, Triangle-flowered wild-medlar, Zimbabwe wild medlar, Small wild medlar, Common wild medlar.
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