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    Veratrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melanthiaceae. It occurs in damp habitats across much of temperate and subarctic Europe, Asia, and...
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    Veratrum album, the false helleborine, white hellebore, European white hellebore, or white veratrum (syn. Veratrum lobelianum Bernh.) is a poisonous plant...
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    Veratrum viride, known as Indian poke, corn-lily, Indian hellebore, false hellebore, green false hellebore, or giant false-helleborine, is a species of...
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    Veratrum californicum (California corn lily, white or California false hellebore) is an extremely poisonous plant native to western North America, including...
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  • album False hellebore – Veratrum album, Veratrum viride Swamp hellebore – Veratrum viride White hellebore – Veratrum album, Veratrum viride Hemp – Cannabis...
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    Veratrum lobelianum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Melanthiaceae. Its native range is Central Europe to Caucasus and Russian Far...
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    Veratrum nigrum, the black false hellebore, is a widespread Eurasian species of perennial flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. Despite its common...
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    Veratrum insolitum is a species of false hellebore, a type of plant closely related to the lily. Its common name is Siskiyou false hellebore. It is native...
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    Ratzeb. Skoinolon officinale (Schltdl. & Cham.) Farw. Veratrum officinale Schltdl. & Cham. Veratrum sabadilla Retz. Xerophyllum sabadilla (Retz.) D.Don...
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    with sterols. They fall in two major categories: Solanum alkaloids and Veratrum alkaloids. A Steroidal alkaloid has also been found in Chonemorpha fragrans...
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    Veratrum hybridum is a species of flowering plant in the Melanthiaceae known by the common names slender bunchflower and crisped bunchflower. Many publications...
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    with Veratrum album, and that this would produce poisoning symptoms that match the course of events described in the Alexander Romance. Veratrum album...
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  • practical joke or prank to an unsuspecting victim. Sneezing powders containing Veratrum album alkaloids have been linked to poisoning, including upset stomach...
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    suggested that he could have been poisoned by a wine made from the plant Veratrum album, known as white hellebore. This poisonous plant can produce prolonged...
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  • In the Lily family it is likely to refer to either: Veratrum album Veratrum californicum Veratrum nigrum Helleborine This page is an index of articles...
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    Veratrum fimbriatum is an uncommon species of false hellebore, a type of plant closely related to the lily. Its common names are fringed false hellebore...
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    lily of the valley, Colchicum autumnale, Arum maculatum, and Veratrum viride or Veratrum album, all of which are poisonous. In Europe, where ramsons are...
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  • plants and may refer to: Veratrum album, native to Europe and western Asia Veratrum californicum, native to North America Veratrum viride, native to North...
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  • Wood's bunchflower or Ozark bunch-flower, is a species formerly known as Veratrum woodii. It is native to the central and southeastern parts of the United...
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    in a Japanese article in 1939 by Michio Takaoka, who isolated it from Veratrum album, variety grandiflorum, and later, in 1963, from the roots of Japanese...
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    closely related to Veratrum, and in fact are included in that genus by some authors. The distinction between Melanthium and Veratrum is based on various...
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    Veratramine is an alkaloid isolated from the rhizomes of Veratrum. Lishu Wang, Wei Li, Yonghong Liu (2008). "Hypotensive effect and toxicology of total...
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    the 21st century were Schoenocaulon, Stenanthium, Veratrum, Melanthium (often included in Veratrum) and Zigadenus s.l. The last genus contained about...
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    cramping, cuprum or with excessive evacuations and profuse cold sweat, veratrum album. These are the Trio Cholera remedies used by homoeopaths around the...
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    steroidal alkaloid found in plants of the lily family, specifically the genera Veratrum and Schoenocaulon. Upon absorption through the skin or mucous membranes...
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    steroidal alkaloids found in Solanaceae and Melanthiaceae (specially the genus Veratrum), cardiac glycosides, the phytosterols and the brassinosteroids (which...
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    et du principe actif qu'ils renferment. [Cévadille (veratrum sabadilla); hellébore blanc (veratrum album); colchique commun (colchicum autumnale)]" [Chemical...
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    The use of corticosteroids during pregnancy in dogs and the ingestion of Veratrum californicum by pregnant sheep have also been associated with cleft formation...
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    The antihypertensive effects of methyldopa, mecamylamine, reserpine, and veratrum alkaloids may be reduced by sympathomimetics. Beta-adrenergic antagonists...
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    with scattered roots. M. racemosum closely resembles members of the genus Veratrum, a highly toxic group of plants to which it is distantly related, as well...
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