Hyoscyamus

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title: Hyoscyamus
text: Hyoscyamus — known as the henbanes — is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. It comprises 31 species, all of which are toxic. It, along with other genera in the same family, is a source of the drug hyoscyamine (daturine). Cruciferous type of stomata is present in Hyoscyamus. Hyoscyamus means "hog-bean" in botanical Latin and was a name derogatorily applied to the plant by Dioscorides. The poisonous, narcotic henbanes were associated with witchcraft since earliest tim
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description: Genus of flowering plants
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscyamus
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date modified: 2024-04-24T14:34:31Z
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