Boophone is a small genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.) It consists...
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Boophone disticha is a bulbous tropical and subtropical flowering plant, endemic to Africa. Commonly called the century plant or tumbleweed, Boophone...
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Boophone haemanthoides is a plant species native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It is a bulb-forming herb with more than half of its...
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Palmae) Jubaea Order Asparagales Amaryllidaceae (geophytes): Amaryllis, Boophone, Clivia, Crinum, Cryptostephanus, Cyrtanthus, Haemanthus, Rauhia, Scadoxus...
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-Doblies, Feddes Repert. 105: 358 (1994) After being included in the genus Boophone for many decades, Crossyne was raised to genus status in the 1990s, most...
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opposite sides of the stem. Examples include various bulbous plants such as Boophone. It also occurs in other plant habits such as those of Gasteria or Aloe...
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treatment of babesiosis in dogs. Extracts of the poisonous, bulbous plant Boophone disticha are used in the folk medicine of South Africa to treat equine...
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Boophone disticha has conspicuously distichous leaves....
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Amaryllidinae Amaryllis Boophoninae Boophone Strumariinae Strumaria Crininae Crinum...
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such plants. Genera with this means of seed dispersal include Ammocharis, Boophone, Crossyne and Brunsvigia. Some species of the Apiaceae form tumbleweeds...
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