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Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyApocynaceae
Калотропис высокий, или Содомское яблоко (лат. Calotropis procera) — растение семейства Кутровые, вид рода Калотропис. Произрастает в диком виде в пустынных и полупустынных районах Северной и Тропической Африки, Западной и Южной Азии и Индонезии.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,106
- With media
- 1,275
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Collections
- CICY, ECOSUR, INECOL, ENCB-IPN, CCBA-FMVZ-UADY, IBUNAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
A small plant of stabragh in Ab Pakhsh Seeds
Calotropis procera is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae that is native to Northern and Tropical Africa, Western Asia, South Asia and Indochina (mainland Southeast Asia). It typically reaches a height between 6 feet (1.8 m) to 8 feet (2.4 m), and rarely to as high as 15 feet (4.6 m), and grows in sunny to partly-shaded habitats such as disturbed and overgrazed lands, rangeland, roadsides, river flats and coastal dunes. Its green fruits contain a toxic milky sap that is extremely bitter and turns into a latex-like substance, which is resistant to soap.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calotropis procera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.