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Physostigma venenosum   Listen
Physostigma venenosum

noun
1.
Tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans.  Synonym: calabar-bean vine.






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"Physostigma venenosum" Quotes from Famous Books



... mud, its iridescence declaring the presence of iron; oozing out of the ground, it discharges during rains into the river: and, throughout the dry season, it keeps its little valley green with trees and shrubs. I observed what appeared to be the Esere or Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum), whose hairy pod is very distasteful to the travelling skin: it ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton



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