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    Plumbago is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world. Common names...
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  • Plumbago may refer to: Plumbago, the leadworts, a genus of flowering plants Plumbago (butterfly), a genus of skipper butterflies Used generically for lead...
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    Plumbago auriculata, the Cape leadwort, blue plumbago or Cape plumbago, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to South Africa...
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    Plumbago zeylanica, commonly known as Ceylon leadwort, doctorbush or wild leadwort, is a species of plumbago with a pantropical distribution. Carl Linnaeus...
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    Graphite (redirect from Plumbago (mineral))
    producers of graphite. Historically, graphite was called black lead or plumbago. Plumbago was commonly used in its massive mineral form. Both of these names...
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    Plumbago arabica is a species of flowering plant in the genus Plumbago. It is a subshrub native to western and central India and to Oman and the United...
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    Plumbago indica, the Indian leadwort, scarlet leadwort or whorled plantain, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to Southeast...
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    distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family. Most species in this family are perennial herbaceous plants, but...
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  • Plumbago caerulea is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is native to South America. "Plumbago caerulea". ipni.org. International...
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    Plumbago europaea, also known as the common leadwort, is a plant species in the genus Plumbago found in the Mediterranean Basin and Central Asia. Plumbago...
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    Synonyms Celaena punctifera Walker, [1857] Perigea punctifera Perigea plumbago Herrich-Schäffer, 1868 Condica plumbago Celaena semifurca Walker, 1857...
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    Plumbago drawings are graphite drawings from the 17th and 18th centuries. There was a group of artists whose work in plumbago is remarkable for their...
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    Plumbago wissii is a species of plant in the family Plumbaginaceae endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitat is rocky areas. It grows to around 2mm in diameter...
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  • Plumbago is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database v t e...
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    Ceratostigma willmottianum, Chinese plumbago, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae that is native to western China and Tibet. It...
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  • Plumbago pulchella is a species of flowering plant in the Plumbaginaceae family. It is referred to by the common name cola de iguana. The plant species...
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    the hardy blue-flowered leadwort, is a species of flowering plant in the plumbago family, native to China, where it is known as 蓝雪花 (pinyin: lánxuěhuā; lit...
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  • Plumbago socotrana (synonym Dyerophytum socotranum) is a small shrub growing up to 2m tall, rather glaucous and covered in white mealy powder. It has yellow...
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  • Plumbago pendula is a species of flowering plant in the genus Plumbago. It is a shrub or tree endemic to north-central Socotra, an island which is part...
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  • 'Plumbago africana is a species of flowering plant in the genus Plumbago. It is a subshrub that ranges from southwestern Angola through Namibia to the...
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    thought to be a form of lead.[citation needed] Consequently, it was called plumbago (Latin for "lead ore"). Because the pencil core is still referred to as...
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    graphite writing tool, the particular type of graphite used was named plumbago (literally, lead mockup). Lead metal has several useful mechanical properties...
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    (Moss-heather) Ceanothus (Ceanothus) * Celastrus (Staff vine) * Ceratostigma (Hardy Plumbago) Cercocarpus (Mountain-mahogany) * Chaenomeles (Japanese Quince) Chamaebatiaria...
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    "plumbaginifolia", is from the leaves bearing similarity to those of the genus Plumbago. "Nicotiana plumbaginifolia". Germplasm Resources Information Network....
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    section has Cissus quadrangularis (Hadjod); "skin disease" section has Plumbago zeylanica (Chitarak) which cures leucoderma. Noida's botanical garden has...
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    flowers of Plumbago...
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    Leptotes plinius, the zebra blue or plumbago blue, is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in Sri Lanka, India to Australia. The species was...
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  • with oil or grease as a finish for stoves Blacklead, another name for the Plumbago drawing style and medium Blacklead Island, Nunavut, Canada Black residue...
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    ants and other small insects on the species Plumbago auriculata, Plumbago europa, Plumbago indica, and Plumbago zeylanica.[citation needed] Studies on P...
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    Massachusetts. Later, Thoreau converted the pencil factory to produce plumbago, a name for graphite at the time, which was used in the electrotyping process...
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