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Be-still Tree
(Cascabela thevetia)
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Cascabela thevetia (syn: Thevetia peruviana) is a poisonous plant native throughout Mexico and in Central America, and cultivated widely as an ornamental. It is a relative of Nerium oleander, giving it a common name yellow oleander, and is also called lucky nut in the West Indies.
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Genus Cerbera
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Cerbera is a genus of evergreen small trees or shrubs, native to tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar,and various islands in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
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Grey Milkwood
(Cerbera manghas)
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Cerbera manghas (sea mango, synonym:Tanghinia venenifera) is a small evergreen coastal tree growing up 12 metres (39 ft) tall. The shiny dark-green leaves are in spiral arrangement, ovoid in shape. The flowers are fragrant, possessing a white tubular five-lobed corolla about 3 to 5 centimetres (1.2 to 2.0 in) in diameter, with a pink to red throat. They have five stamens and the ovary is positioned above the other flower parts. The fruits are egg-shaped, 5 to 10...
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Pong Pong
(Cerbera odollam)
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Cerbera odollam is a dicotyledonous angiosperm, a plant species in the Family Apocynaceae and commonly known as the suicide tree, pong-pong, and othalanga. It is a species native to India and other parts of southern Asia, growing preferentially in coastal salt swamps and in marshy areas but also grown as a hedge plant between home compounds. It yields a potent poison that has been used for suicide and murder.
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Heady Maiden
(Amata cerbera)
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Amata cerbera, commonly known as the heady maiden, is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It was described by Linnaeus in 1764. It has an extensive range in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Cassowary Plum
(Cerbera floribunda)
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Cerbera floribunda, commonly known as cassowary plum, grey milkwood, brebong, biegbau or babai, is a species of Cerbera native to New Guinea and Tropical North Queensland in Australia. It is a favourite food of North Queensland’s iconic flightless bird, the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius).
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Amata francisca
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Amata francisca is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1876. It is found in the Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Sierra Leone.
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