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dogbane

plant
Also known as: Apocynum

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Apocynaceae

  • golden-trumpet
    In Apocynaceae: Major genera and species

    Dogbane (Apocynum) and bluestar (Amsonia) are sometimes grown as ornamentals. The impala lily (Adenium multiflorum) is an ornamental shrub with star-shaped flowers and large underground tubers.

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  • great yellow gentian
    In Gentianales: Apocynaceae

    The common name for Apocynum, dogbane, refers to its effects on animals. Even the commonly cultivated tropical shrub Nerium (oleander) is poisonous and has caused deaths in infants who ingested as little as a single leaf.

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characteristics of Gentianales

  • great yellow gentian
    In Gentianales: Apocynaceae

    Apocynaceae, the dogbane family, is broadly circumscribed to include the former Asclepiadaceae, or milkweed family, and includes about 400 genera and 4,555 species. This realignment is based on DNA sequencing as well as morphological similarities, such as their milky sap and highly modified gynoecium (female flower structure).…

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