Boophone disticha
Boophone disticha is a poisonous bulbous tropical and subtropical flowering plant, endemic to Africa. Its common names are gifbol, tumbleweed, veld fan, and windball. The type specimen was collected in 1781 from South Africa by Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg and described by Linnaeus as Amaryllis disticha. Since that time it has been placed in the genera Brunsvigia and Haemanthus, finally coming to rest as Boophone. The genus itself was written in three ways (Boophone, Boophane and Buphane) by the author William Herbert, straining the procedures of the rules of nomenclature. The etymology of the genus is from the Greek 'bous' = ox, and 'phontes'= killer of, a clear warning that eating the plant is fatal to stock.
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Boophone disticha
Boophone disticha is a poisonous bulbous tropical and subtropical flowering plant, endemic to Africa. Its common names are gifbol, tumbleweed, veld fan, and windball. The type specimen was collected in 1781 from South Africa by Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg and described by Linnaeus as Amaryllis disticha. Since that time it has been placed in the genera Brunsvigia and Haemanthus, finally coming to rest as Boophone. The genus itself was written in three ways (Boophone, Boophane and Buphane) by the author William Herbert, straining the procedures of the rules of nomenclature. The etymology of the genus is from the Greek 'bous' = ox, and 'phontes'= killer of, a clear warning that eating the plant is fatal to stock.
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Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. ...... btropical do sueste da África.
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Boophone disticha is a poisono ...... scattering seeds as it rolls.
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Boophone disticha, selten Fäch ...... llisgewächse (Amaryllidaceae).
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* Amaryllis disticha (L.f.) (basionym)
* Boophone toxicaria (L.f.) Herb.)
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Flowerhead with larvae of Diaphone eumela
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Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. ...... btropical do sueste da África.
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Boophone disticha is a poisono ...... g the plant is fatal to stock.
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Boophone disticha, selten Fäch ...... llisgewächse (Amaryllidaceae).
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Boophone disticha
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Boophone disticha
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Boophone disticha
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